Installing from running FreeBSD

Eduardo Morras emorrasg at yahoo.es
Fri Nov 28 17:36:22 UTC 2014


On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:53:45 -0600
Chris Petrik <chris at bsdjunk.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/2014 10:48, Eduardo Morras wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a server running FreeBSD 9.2-p15. I want to upgrade it to
> > release 10.1 with minimal shutdown so I'm thinking about installing
> > 10.1 in a new partition running the 10.1 installer from 9.2.,
> > configure the system, install and configure ports, and then restart
> > with 10.1. I never did it before nor know if it can be done and
> > some questions emerge:
> >
> > a) Did someone tried it before?
> > b) Can it be done safety/ly?
> > c) How can I install ports or pkgs in 10.1 partition from 9.2,
> > perhaps with the pkg jail (-j) option?
> >
> > Thanks in advence

> Why not just use freebsd-update you only reboot once.

Yes, but if something goes wrong, I need to undo the update and lost time, which may go wrong too. It's a server that I want to minimize its downtime.

Thanks

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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg at yahoo.es>


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