[OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster conversion

[Jonathan Adams]

Like you, I have a few 151a boxes lying around.

Originally I had a box that was upgrade every few weeks, and it managed to
be upgraded to the latest hipster, so it is possible.  However the number
of incremental changes that have happened since 151a, and the incrementals
might have been pruned over time, which means that the general advice now
is that you do a fresh install and copy on your files.

The 151a boxes I have will be replaced in the next year, so that potential
headache will go away for me, and they will be fresh install on new
hardware.

Either way you decide to go, remember to take plenty of backups before you
start.

Jon

On 26 September 2017 at 13:17, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:

> I have been letting things just 'run' for quite a while now but since I
> started working towards virtualizing my systems I have come to notice that
> 151a is no longer a thing...   Is it 'safe' for me to upgrade my servers (a
> file server and a web server/mysql server) to hipster?  I don't want to let
> them rot on 151a if that is no longer being supported.  That whole will
> likely just get deeper.
>
>
> I hate to do it but I could start fresh with hipster but I haven't
> installed all of my stuff in 10 years so I am not sure I even remember
> where to look for my notes on what I did...
>
>
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