From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 09:10:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A882106564A for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:10:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from f.mail.ru.ac.za (f.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8B28FC14 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:10:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:64577) by f.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KdLix-00066G-C0; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:10:55 +0200 Received: from iwr61.iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.161]) by iwr.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KdLix-000F92-9h; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:10:55 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" Organization: IWR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:10:56 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <48C7AB40.3055.517729E0@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20080908185002.B093F10656C3@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20080908185002.B093F10656C3@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: f.mail.ru.ac.za (146.231.129.38) Cc: jalmberg@identry.com Subject: Re: safest way to upgrade a production server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:10:59 -0000 On 8 Sep 2008 , freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 232, Issue 3": > >> FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1: > >> Mon Dec 3 09:46:53 EST 2007 root@***servername***:/usr/obj/usr/ > >> src/sys/INET_ON amd64 > > > > oooh, that is a bit old I think. > > I chose this server as an example, because it's the oldest one. I > didn't install the OS on this server, the vendor did. Not sure why > they chose a prerelease version... perhaps 6.3 was almost ready to go > and they wanted to put us on the 6.3 branch? I don't know. maybe 6.3 had the drivers for the motherboard? I had that - I purchased a nice shiny newmotherbaord in 2007 but could not use it before 7.0R came out as the chips were not supported by 6.x. I chose not to use a CURRENT or RC version of 7, but to just wait. > Anyway, I guess what I should do is patch this to the latest 6.3 > version? yes. > Or should I go to the latest 6.x version? I am pretty sure I don't > want to experiment with a 7.x upgrade. 6.3 is the latest 6 verison (-: -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/