From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 12:36:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCABB37B6E1 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA42855 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:36:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:36:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: swapping servers Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, perhaps mucking up my machine was a good thing. I was liking it at home box too much when I originally built it to replace my old server which is a little under powered right now. I have an UltraWide SCSI drive in it with a 20 gig IDE drive in it for mass storage. I was also given another 30 gigs by a friend who would like access to use the box as well. It also has a faster processor than the current server. It will help me when dealing with more cryptography and java issues since that had been a bogging down the server in the past. The old box also needs a fresh install since I feel some librararies are conflicting and I am unable to do a clean build on the live server. What I plan on doing is installing FreeBSD 4.0 along with all the goods that are on the current server and making the boxes as close to identical as possible... then quickly swap out the old box and install the new box. (shutdown, boot up) This will be a totally clean install. I will install FreeBSD RELEASE and do a "make buildworld" for STABLE and install a STABLE kernel. Are there any caveats that I would be aware of before going ahead with this plan? Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message