From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 10:24:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782D537B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0990743EB1 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 12767 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2002 17:27:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2002 17:27:59 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.1.18) with SMTP id M2002101610275803214 ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:27:58 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9GHOBnr011690; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:24:11 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9GHO81J026667; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200210161724.g9GHO81J026667@axp.csl.sri.com> To: jdarnold@buddydog.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade recommendations In-Reply-To: Message from "Jonathan Arnold" of "Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:14:12 EDT." <200210161314120727.0B4D72FE@mail.speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:24:08 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would recommend a cvsup, build world, build kernel, etc. upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE personnally. Doing the upgrade this way will keep downtime to a minumum ( perhaps 10 minutes downtime ). - Mike > I'm currently running 4.5, and want to upgrade my machine and was > wondering what you might have for recommendations. > > It has dual 333mhz Pentium II cpus, an S3 video card, 256mb RAM > and a 20gb hard drive - not cutting edge hardware by any means! > All it does is serve my small web sites via Apache and run some > low volume mailing lists via Mailman. It isn't kept too busy, > but it shouldn't be down for long periods nonetheless. > > I'm thinking of 3 possible paths: > > 1] A binary upgrade using the latest 4.x (4.7?) > > 2] A binary upgrade to 5.0 > > 3] A reformat and complete upgrade to 5.0 - I already have > the web site & mailing list dbs backed up. > > As scary as it sounds, I'm leaning towards #3. It seems it > shouldn't be too hard to move the Mailman database stuff > to a new machine, so my main concern is how stable 5.0 is > at this point. I'm willing (heck, even want) to play with > some bleeding edge technology, but I do need it to be > running with extensive handholding. Is 5.0 at that stage? > -- > Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) > The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog > http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message