Re: remote upgrade of a dom0

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:59:55AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I have a remote machine running 4.0 and xentools/xenkernel 3.1.4.  I'd
> like to upgrade the dom0 to 5.0 and xenkernel to 3.3.1nb1.  To
> complicate matters, the two disks are RAIDed.  The question is how to do
> the upgrade safely, given that the machine in question is 400km from
> here.
> 
> I have remote serial console access; there's also a power bar for
> giving the machine a good solid kick in the reset button.
> 
> Thoughts?

I think you'll have a problem here: xenkernel 3.3.1nb1 needs a amd64
or i386PAE kernel, so the only option for 5.0 is amd64 (i386PAE dom0
support is only in current). As you 4.0 dom0 installation is probably
a i386 (if you have backported amd64 support to netbsd-4 let us know :)
it's not only an upgrade but a i386->amd64 switch.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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