Michael Schuh
2005-Oct-07 03:36 UTC
Switching from RELENG_4 to newer Release that supports ia64
Hello, we plan to change the Hardware from one of our Servers Running RELENG_4. The New Hardware becomes CPU-Types Xeon w/ EM64 -> ia64 architecture. Now i have no experiences to change the OS-Release under the ass from running Software (postfix/cyrus/postgresql/mysql/perl....etc.) I be also not sure what release-version should i take. My preferred opinion was to change to the upcoming RELENG_6, but i be not sure if this is really a good idea, second i have no documents found to migrate from RELENG_4 to RELENG_6. I know it gives a very good description of changing the underlying OS-Version to RELENG_5. Another possible change is the Change to DragonFlyBSD. But here is the same again, to less knowledge about this step. Can anyone point's me to an good description for this switching, or have anyone good experiences with the combinations of OS-Versions resp. OS-Types (in case of DragonFlyBSD) with running Software in production? Iportant to know is also that this is an Hot-Production-Server. Thanks for the suggestions. best regards Michael
Brooks Davis
2005-Oct-07 09:18 UTC
Switching from RELENG_4 to newer Release that supports ia64
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:36:13PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote:> Hello, > > we plan to change the Hardware from one of our Servers Running RELENG_4. > The New Hardware becomes CPU-Types Xeon w/ EM64 -> ia64 architecture. > > Now i have no experiences to change the OS-Release under the ass > from running Software (postfix/cyrus/postgresql/mysql/perl....etc.)Xeons with EM64T are amd64 architecture. I very much doubt you are switching to ia64, particularly for a mail/db/web server.> I be also not sure what release-version should i take. > > My preferred opinion was to change to the upcoming RELENG_6, > but i be not sure if this is really a good idea, second i have no > documents found to migrate from RELENG_4 to RELENG_6. > > I know it gives a very good description of changing the underlying > OS-Version to RELENG_5.I'd choose 6.0 over 5.4 at this point. Since you are changing to new hardware, you will definitly want to reinstall and reconfigure your services (you can of course use your old configurations.) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20051007/1b50e22b/attachment.bin