[OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster conversion

[Timothy Coalson]

I had two 151a9 systems (with very little installed) which upgraded fairly
cleanly to a 2015 snapshot of hipster, following this page:

https://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30802657

Make backups, YMMV, etc.

Tim


On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:

> I think I will try upgrading a snapshot of the VM I created of the actual
> server and see how that goes...  I don't think there will hardware problems
> on the server since it is a sun x2200m2.
>
>
>
> On 09/26/17 08:43, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Daniel Kjar
>>> Associate Professor of Biology
>>> Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
>>> Elmira College
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>>> Elmira, NY 14901
>>> 607-735-1826
>>> http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar
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>>>          -E. O. Wilson
>>>
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> Dr. Daniel Kjar
> Associate Professor of Biology
> Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
> Elmira College
> 1 Park Place
> Elmira, NY 14901
> 607-735-1826
> http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar
>
> "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
>         -E. O. Wilson
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