On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:38:06PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:02:59AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:09:50 -0500
> > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11,
> > > g
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:02:59AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:09:50 -0500
> "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11,
> > gmirror in 6.x), and I don't know of any way to go from one to the
> > othe
Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11, gmirror
> > in 6.x), and I don't know of any way to go from one to the other that
> > doesn't involve wiping both drives at the same time.
>
> You can wipe one of the disks, cr
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Paul Allen wrote:
While possibly not advisable in the long term, I ran a 4.x postfix and
cyrus server install on 6.x using compat4 for about six months without
problems. The place where it gets tricky is updating the 4.x binaries,
which requires a 4.x chroot, since I was
>From Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:51:13AM +0100:
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, security wrote:
>
> > You'll have the sources. If you're using 4.11 in a business, you need
> > to decide if it's more cost effective to move on to 6 or hire someone to
> >keep 4.11 runni
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, security wrote:
You'll have the sources. If you're using 4.11 in a business, you need to
decide if it's more cost effective to move on to 6 or hire someone to keep
4.11 running. There's compat_4 to keep most userland apps happy. I'm sure
you could argue the various d
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:09:50 -0500
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11,
> gmirror in 6.x), and I don't know of any way to go from one to the
> other that doesn't involve wiping both drives at the same time.
So, what is your b
* "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-19 12:09 -0500]:
> The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11, gmirror
> in 6.x), and I don't know of any way to go from one to the other that
> doesn't involve wiping both drives at the same time.
You can wipe one of the disks, cr
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:04:46PM -0500, Yoshihiro Ota wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:13:11 +0100 (BST)
> Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you're setting up machines that you're going to be upgrading like
> > this in the future, I think it's _really_ worthwhile hacking out a
> > coup
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:13:11 +0100 (BST)
Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you're setting up machines that you're going to be upgrading like
> this in the future, I think it's _really_ worthwhile hacking out a
> couple of "root slices" - that is, space for a second / and /usr - to
>
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> 1. Be prepared to spend a lot of time in single-user mode, especially
> for the 4->5 step, because there is a LOT for mergemaster to do. The
> step from 5->6 is not nearly as painful. I didn't try to do the
> installworld and mergemaster in multius
Michael,
Nice job with this, I'm sure that many people will find it very
helpful. I would like to offer a few suggestions if I may.
Michael W. Oliver wrote:
Colin,
Thanks for the verbose and reasoned explanation. Since the email last
week, I have taken the opportunity to upgrade two machine
>From the list digest:
> 23. FreeBSD 4.x EoL (FreeBSD Security Officer)
A few things immediately jumped out at me, and so I've elided
everything around them so that they stand out; which I believe to be
proper:
> From: FreeBSD Security Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: FreeBSD 4.x EoL
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:07:22PM -0400, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> Colin,
>
> Thanks for the verbose and reasoned explanation. Since the email last
> week, I have taken the opportunity to upgrade two machines, one here and
> one remote (both with serial console) from 4.9->5.5->6.2PRE, and while
Colin,
Thanks for the verbose and reasoned explanation. Since the email last
week, I have taken the opportunity to upgrade two machines, one here and
one remote (both with serial console) from 4.9->5.5->6.2PRE, and while I
can't say that I did it blindfolded, it wasn't too painful. The upgrade
i
FreeBSD Security Officer wrote:
In short:
* FreeBSD is a volunteer project, and we don't want to volunteer to support
FreeBSD 4.x beyond the scheduled EoL date of January 31st, 2007;
* Even if we did want to support FreeBSD 4.x beyond that date, I'm not certain
that we would be able to do so, g
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