Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2?

[Mathias Haas]

Thanks both of you for the answer! I've once tried to CVSup a 5.1 
prerelease to release and that didn't work too well. I found a computer 
with a spare disk where I installed 5.2.1, that took only 15 minutes and 
from there, restoring the backup was simple. I'll now use that computer 
to build a copy of the old 4.6.2 and then DD the whole disk to the old 
machine. Thanks for the help, it's easy to panic in situations like these.

/Mathias

Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:34:49AM +0200, Mathias Haas wrote:
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>>Hello! My wifes' company had a break-in during the night today and they 
>>stole ALL the computers. They have their backup on an external firewire 
>>disk.
>>At home I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 setup - but I believe that 4.6.2 doesn't 
>>have firewire support, is this correct?
>>Is there any way to add firewire support to the kernel or do I have to 
>>upgrade to a later version of FreeBSD?
>>If so, what are the odds for a successfull upgrade from 4.6.2 to 4.10 ? 
>>A fresh reinstall would take a lot of time since the 4.6.2 server runs a 
>>ton of applications.
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>>
>
>Yikes.  Yes, FireWire support was first introduced in FreeBSD 5.0 and
>then later MFC'd to 4.x: see
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>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fwohci&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=html
>
>A 4.6.2 to 4.10 upgrade should be do-able by the make
>{build,install}{world,kernel} process as spelt out in
>/usr/src/UPDATING.  Just use cvsup(1) to grab the latest RELENG_4 or
>RELENG_4_10 sources and follow the instructions.  There's plenty in
>the Handbook about doing an upgrade like that:
>
>    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html
>    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
>That should get you a kernel+base system update without screwing up
>all of the other software you've got installed.  Although it is
>impossible to be completely certain about that.  If the machine you
>intend to do this to is a production system, then I'd advise you not
>to, but instead to hunt around for a reasonably cheap new machine with
>FireWire capability and install there instead.
>
>In any case, get good backups of your 4.6.2 box before doing anything
>else to that machine.
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
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