Subject: Re: RAID, sysinst, and upgrading
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/14/2004 10:35:28
In message <rmi8yj5fzum.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>, Greg Troxel writes:
> > > [raid upgrade]
>
> I think you need to do it manually.
>
>Either that or do it from source with build.sh and installworld. I
>did this on a machine from 1.6 to current several months ago, albeit
>without raid, and had no issues. I wouldn't even think of doing a
>binary upgrade if I had the space to build, unless the machine was so
>slow that the build would take more than a few days.
>
It's a 233 Mhz machine with only 192M of RAM -- a full build would take
a while.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb