Switching from RELENG_4 to newer Release that supports ia64

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:36:13PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we plan to change the Hardware from one of our Servers Running RELENG_4.
> The New Hardware becomes CPU-Types Xeon w/ EM64 -> ia64 architecture.
>
> Now i have no experiences to change the OS-Release under the ass
> from running Software (postfix/cyrus/postgresql/mysql/perl....etc.)

Xeons with EM64T are amd64 architecture.  I very much doubt you are
switching to ia64, particularly for a mail/db/web server.

> I be also not sure what release-version should i take.
> 
> My preferred opinion was to change to the upcoming RELENG_6,
> but i be not sure if this is really a good idea, second i have no
> documents found to migrate from RELENG_4 to RELENG_6.
>
> I know it gives a very good description of changing the underlying
> OS-Version to RELENG_5.

I'd choose 6.0 over 5.4 at this point.  Since you are changing to new
hardware, you will definitly want to reinstall and reconfigure your
services (you can of course use your old configurations.)

-- Brooks

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