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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