On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote:
# > The GENERIC kernel in 8.0 comes with the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 option by default,
so
# > the only thing you need to do is to install the misc/compat5x port.
#
# That is, if the executables weren't dependent on compat[2-4] options in the
kernel on the old
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:33:51AM +0100, Roland Smith typed:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:08:05PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>
> > o Some of the executables on this box are without source but I
> > still need them to run; short of moving them to a VM and doing some
> > voodoo, what are the
Hi,
On 01 February 2010 am 08:12:56 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>
> 5.4 seemed to actually have many issues with USB; some devices
including 7.2. USB was the main reason why I left the machine on 6.x. I planned
then an direkt update to 8.0 when i
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
# Not totally true. 5.4 was released in 2005 whereas newest motherboard with
# which I faced personally problems booting from USB was from 2003. And it
# actually declares that it can boot from USB.
5.4 seemed to actually have many issues wit
On 31.01.2010 13:45, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk
of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in),
easy migration of service by service, etc and so on. Strikes me as a
PITA, but then again .. the others are pro
Erich Dollansky writes:
> Remember, the USD stack was rewritten from scratch.
It it my understanding that in most cases the new USB stack
should ve compatible with the old USB stack, at least to the extent
that programs that compile and run under $OldUSB should compile
and run under $Ne
Hi,
On 31 January 2010 pm 19:18:35 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk
> > of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in),
> > easy migration of service by service
Hi,
I did recently an unplaned update of a machine out of the same time.
You will face so many changes that simply setting up the machine newly might be
less work.
Of course, do a good backup to at least two media and then install the new
version.
One thing I experienced was a bit strange. 8.
On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk
of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in),
easy migration of service by service, etc and so on. Strikes me as a
PITA, but then again .. the others are prob
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:08:05PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>
> ie: This machine has a lot going on .. wiki's (ie: apache et al),
> mysql databases, mailing lists, and a dozen hand rolled applications.
> (Hey, someone has to write custom emulators of ancient systems to keep
> BBSes ali
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>
>Hello my friends,
>
>I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD
> 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like
> to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile i
Hello my friends,
I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is
FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd
really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was
held back by very specific applications I had to support, but
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