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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: FBSD Future... X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 45 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <Dz72I8.8M1@news2.new-york.net> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <Dz67yE.8I7@interactive.net> X-Trace: 845176685/9067 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:18:08 GMT Chris Mauritz (ritz@interactive.net) wrote: : Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: : :)Well,I see that the expected release of 2.2 has been pushed back from : :)late summer '96 to first quarter '97,quite a jump,and I wonder what : :)more there is to it past Walnut Creek's desire to keep the CDROMs : :)semi-annual. : : *shrug* : : :)I gather that 2.1.6 will be released on the net only,not on CDROM,so : :)how would one handle an upgrade from 2.1?(No point in going to : : Do an FTP install. If you've got a reasonably fat pipe to the : net, it's rather painless. I did a full install of 2.2-current : over our T3 the other day and it only took about 15-20 mins. :-) So for a 384k...? : :)2.1.5 first if 2.1.6 is coming).How long would I have to take my : :)ISP down to go to 2.1.6,and get it in shape to honor the 9-12 character : :)IDs enabled by a kernel recompile for my 2.1??And what would I actually : :)gain by so doing? : : If you take your entire site down to do that upgrade you're not : doing it right. A 486-120 is cheap. Get a spare one and install : the new OS on the spare machine. Then, a simple dump/restore : cycle with some minor fiddling should be all you need to do. I have two of them,news and main.Would do them one at a time. News is a backup radius server,so PPP customers could be authenticated while main was busy upgrading,but shell customers and mail would be out for that time. : :)For a got-to-stay-up business like an ISP,it might be better to wait : :)for a 2.2.x after 2.2R gets its bug reports dealt with...I guess : :)the first such release is at least 9 months off. : : It might even be better to use BSDI. (ducking) : : :)(64-bit 3.x is presumably years away still). : : I guess you'll need to upgrade to something other than your : 486-120's then. :-) Well,yes.