From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 10:28:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35D3F37B517 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 24184 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 17:28:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 10.2.2.100) (62.2.98.229) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 17:28:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:30:15 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45 Beta/6) Personal Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <119204174126.20000803193015@buz.ch> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Upgrading from 4.1-R to 4.1-S In-reply-To: <20000803130304.M58109@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <52199984923.20000803182025@buz.ch> <20000803130304.M58109@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Bill, Thursday, August 03, 2000, 7:03:04 PM, you wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:20:25PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: >> One problem persists: How should I drop to singleuser mode on >> colocated servers? Pretty hard to do without driving to them. > Serial consoles and OOB access make the world go 'round. Sorry, but what's OOB? I think it should be possible to cross connect each two boxes with null modem cables (dunno if there's another word for them in English) in order to get serial access, am I right? (will try it as soon as I can get hands on cables -> tomorrow ;-) If they weren't for Intel CPUs (we're an AMD shop since ever ;-), I'd get some of those new Intel mainboards which even feed the BIOS output to you... But OTOH, at the moment, it'd take approx. 45 min to get to the servers using public transport system, some minutes less but with the risk of traffic jams if by car or, perhaps the best solution if weather allows it, motorbike: Switzerland's small. Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message