Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:12:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Sconiers, John" <john.sconiers@Orbisnews.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrading systems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980704011133.12188L-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Orbis%l=ORBISEXCHANGE-980701185539Z-691@orbisexchange.orbisnews.com>
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Sconiers, John wrote: > We just bought 3 new Unix boxes (Pentium 300's with 3 9gig SCSI hard > drives). The units will be replacing 3 old Pentium 100 boxes that run > Freebsd 2.1.7.1 and Red Hat Linux. The boxes will be doing light > news, mail, firewall, shell, DNS, www, and ftp. My experience with > installing from a boot floppy (2.2.6) on a couple of machines at home > went well, however I'm wondering if its possible for some people to > give ideas about how to install on a "PRODUCTION ENVIROMENT" where > there are security concerns as well as other issues. Also in the > newsgroup people refer to a one or more machines as sort of a code > base machine that is used to test pre production code as well. Is > this generally the practice of a Freebsd Sys-Admin. Any other help or > comments would be greatly appreciated. There is a great article in the May 1998 edition of SysAdmin magazine on this. http://www.samag.com/archive/0705/feature.html Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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