I would recommend a cvsup, build world, build kernel, etc. upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE personnally. Doing the upgrade this way will keep downtime to a minumum ( perhaps 10 minutes downtime ).
- Mike > I'm currently running 4.5, and want to upgrade my machine and was > wondering what you might have for recommendations. > > It has dual 333mhz Pentium II cpus, an S3 video card, 256mb RAM > and a 20gb hard drive - not cutting edge hardware by any means! > All it does is serve my small web sites via Apache and run some > low volume mailing lists via Mailman. It isn't kept too busy, > but it shouldn't be down for long periods nonetheless. > > I'm thinking of 3 possible paths: > > 1] A binary upgrade using the latest 4.x (4.7?) > > 2] A binary upgrade to 5.0 > > 3] A reformat and complete upgrade to 5.0 - I already have > the web site & mailing list dbs backed up. > > As scary as it sounds, I'm leaning towards #3. It seems it > shouldn't be too hard to move the Mailman database stuff > to a new machine, so my main concern is how stable 5.0 is > at this point. I'm willing (heck, even want) to play with > some bleeding edge technology, but I do need it to be > running with extensive handholding. Is 5.0 at that stage? > -- > Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog > http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
