On Friday 23 March 2007 8:30 am, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:40:48AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six > > > months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from > > > one release to the next take? > > > > Yes, you must reboot and perform the upgrade. If you read the upgrade > > guide and get your ducks in a row you can be all done *easily* in 30 > > minutes. If there were some kind of contest with cash prizes it could > > probably be done much quicker. However, it's much more important to get > > the steps right than to do it quickly, IMHO. > > So on a production machine, it has to be off-line for 30 minutes every > six months (not complaining, just clarifying).
Or every year since the previous release version is also supported. For example, if you installed 3.9 last year you don't have to worry about upgrading until 4.1 comes out. -- Tim Kuhlman Network Administrator ColoradoVnet.com
