Re: OpenBSD 3.2 or 2.7?

Eric Zylstra wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Mark Boddy wrote:
> 
> > I have an OpenBSD 2.7 firewall on a IIci with a cache card and 2 Asante
> > network cards and a standard apple graphics card and a 200mb hard disk.
> >
> > Should I upgrade to OpenBSD 3.2?
> >
> 
> You should look at the recent thread running here yesterday and today.
> You certainly shouldn't stay with 2.7, but you may find problems with
> 3.2.
> 
> EZ

Fortunately, it isn't too hard to test to find out if a particular
version will work...

Simply unpack a new /bsd file and copy it to a DIFFERENT name in /
(i.e., /bsd33), reboot tell the booter to use /bsd33, see what
happens.

If you get all kinds of nasty error messages, it is working. 8)
(trying to run the 2.7 userland files on a 3.3 kernel will be ugly at
best.  Expect unpleasant messages).

If it panics, it is not working. 8(

Don't expect a pleasant shutdown...  The question, though, is will the
thing boot the kernel...that isn't dependant upon the rest of the
userland files.

I would be really interested to hear how it works on the IIci.  

Nick.
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