From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 14:53:05 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 D233E106564A for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:53:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693448FC24 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:53:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 7475 invoked by uid 89); 10 Sep 2008 14:53:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 10 Sep 2008 14:53:04 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Almberg Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:53:01 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Subject: Re: safest way to upgrade a production server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:53:05 -0000 > > 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 :-)