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
other that
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,
gmirror in 6.x),
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
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, create a
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
couple of
* 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, create a
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 backup
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
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 running.
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 multiuser,
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
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There has been a lot of discussion on these two mailing lists about the upcoming
EoL of FreeBSD 4.x which I mentioned in my email entitled HEADS UP: FreeBSD
5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon. Now that everybody (hopefully) has had their
say, I'd like to
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
snip
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
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,
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
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 I
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