Re: [moderator] server upgrade

David Iain Greig <greig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Gary Bohn <garybohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David Iain Greig <greig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Assuming Larry's back from hicksville, I will be upgrading darwin
from the current Pentium-II 300MHz server it runs on to an AMD64.
FreeBSD will be jumping from 4.x to 6.x.

I've prebuilt the root disk, and pre-configured inn and apache,
sooooo assuming things go schmootly it should be a mostly plug-and-
play switchover. The pain will be felt by Josh and me in fixing
what I've overlooked.

--D.


How well does FreeBSD deal with AMD 64?

Fine. The nve0 onboard ethernet is also fine, and I am told the
particular mobo I am using (Asus A8N-E) works peachy for the SATA
raid, I picked it for that precise reason (well, ASUS was a given,
I use ASUS mobos as a first choice anyhow).

I've had 'erasmus' up and running on my dining table *al fresco*
for a couple days - mobo+cpu+ram plugged into a PS, with SATA
disk and IDE DVD all laid out. It's been hiccup-less.

So today erasmus becomes darwin, and I migrate the home directories
and a few config files I didn't ftp down to erasmus.

I've tried a few Linux versions (I include FreeBSD in this, even
though it really isn't Linux) on a new Asus/Amd64 combo and have
found hardware support to be rather poor, especially when using SATA
and RAID.

I don't require the RAID, but the AMD64 support in 6.0-STABLE seems
quite fine. The AMD64 support is why I'm moving from 4.8-STABLE to
6.0-STABLE.

Here's hoping you have better luck than I have had. I'd send you a
case of Kokenee but it wouldn't get there in time for the melt-down.

If it doesn't work I back out.

--D.


May I ask why you use FreeBSD rather than Mandriva or Fedora? I'd like
to set up a web/ftp/blog server at home but have found that Mandriva and
Fedora have a steep learning curve for an old DOS/Windows hack like
myself. (I also have little time to spend learning the ins and outs of
Linux)


--
Gary Bohn

Science rationally modifies a theory to fit evidence, creationism
emotionally modifies evidence to fit a specific interpretation of the
bible.

.

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