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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:53:01 -0400
From:      John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: safest way to upgrade a production server
Message-ID:  <B7C31E2C-442E-4B7C-BF73-E2E3B5B364CD@identry.com>
In-Reply-To: <48C7AB40.3055.517729E0@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za>
References:  <20080908185002.B093F10656C3@hub.freebsd.org> <48C7AB40.3055.517729E0@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za>

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> 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.
>

Possibly... the motherboard is an Intel S5000PAL, with dual quad-core  
processors. I think it was pretty cutting edge when they started  
building it, about a year ago. It's still an amazing machine, IMHO.  
Of course, that might be because my life sort of depends on keeping  
it working :-)





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