Re: easy remote upgrade from 2.6, or 2.7, to 2.8

["STeve Andre'" <andres_(_at_)_msu_(_dot_)_edu>]

You forgot to mention grabbing bsd as well as the *28.tgz 
files.  Otherwise, this
looks about what I've done in the past.  So far it's always worked for me.

At 09:54 AM 10/17/00 -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 amanda_(_at_)_wineasy_(_dot_)_se wrote:
>
>  | Perhaps we could take a poll. How many users want stuff like IPv6 and VLAN
>  | in their kernel, and how many want to do remote upgrades?
>  |
>
> I haven't had any problems upgrading my 2.6 systems to the latest snapshots,
> remotely even...
>
> copy all of the *28.tgz files to /tmp, including X if you want it
>
> cd /tmp
> tar xzf etc28.tgz
> rm etc28.tgz
>
> This is so you don't clobber /etc
>
> cd /
> sh
> for i in `ls /tmp/*gz`; do
> tar xzpf $i
> done
>
> Ta-da...Your system is mostly upgraded...
>
> Now move /bsd to /obsd
>
> Move the bsd kernel to /bsd
>
> cd /tmp/etc
>
> Take note of /etc/rc.conf
>
> cp netstart rc.conf security rc rc.securelevel login.conf services 
> ssh*config /etc
>
> Edit /etc/rc.conf to reflect similar settings to your old rc.conf
>
> If you have anything in /etc/aliases, move it to /etc/hostname.XX
> on lines after the first one, with stuff line inet alias x.y.1.2 255.255.x.x
>
> Edit /etc/master.passwd with vipw, and in between 0:0::0:0 on root's password
> line, make it 0:0:daemon:0:0....For yourself and other administrators, your
> lines should be 0:0:staff:0:0....This gives you unlimited process
> limits...Everyone else is subject to other limits in /etc/login.conf
>
> reboot
>
> See 2.8 fly
>
> Upgrading is not 'supported' but is damn easy to do this way