From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 21 21:22:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836BF37B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA97284 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:22:39 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) Received: from wf-134.aipo.gov.au(192.168.1.134) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma097276; Fri, 22 Sep 00 15:22:25 +1100 Received: from localhost (anwsmh@localhost) by stan (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01088 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:22:24 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) X-Authentication-Warning: stan: anwsmh owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:22:24 +1100 (EST) From: Stanley Hopcroft X-Sender: anwsmh@stan To: ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Remote upgrades (2.2.8-STABLE -> 4.1-STABLE). Any suggestions ? In-Reply-To: <200009210230.WAA92904@mail.wanlogistics.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to ask for any recommendations for upgrading a small number of remote 2.2.x terminal servers to 4.x-STABLE ? The options seem to be A preserving the hardware 1 ask a local clerk to drive sysinstall 2 run sysinstall remotely 3 local clerk reboots a custom boot floppy (that does everything) 4 pay them a visit. 5 upgrade from source (they have 500 MB IDEs. WAN links are 64kbps) or make installworld from NFS Or Replacing the hardware send replacments and pay someone to hook up the cables (awfully tempting to ascend to the awesome power of 133/166 MHz) Thank you, Yours sincerely. S Hopcroft Network Specialist IP Australia +61 2 6283 3189 +61 2 6281 1353 FAX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message