Re: [SAGE] Looking for call management/helpdesk software

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+sage@snew.com>]

>  I had one friend that did a "live" conversion of his Red Hat system
>  *into* a Debian system in a way that would really set your skin
>  crawling.
...
>  After it came back up, he ssh'd back into it (having gotten that

Oh sure, with a reboot.  Yeah.  it's easy.  And they are
both Linux.

I just had a machine die 3000 miles away.  Ok, a disk.
I've never seen or touched the machine (sparc 10, I'm told).  The
machine was dropped at my ISP by a friend.  They hooked up the
console and I did a "boot net" from a sparc 2.  Installed the OS,
rebooted and went on.

That was after converting the Sparc 2 a couple years before from
SunOS 4 to OpenBSD from 3000 miles away (2 disks drives). 
All flawless until a disk died in the 10 last monday :( Note to
ALWAYS have an emergency boot available on a second disk.  I can
get OpenBSD quite functional under 20MB.


I'm sort of intrigued with Sun's "live updates" of multiCPU machines
and still enjoy pulling cards out of live machines to replace them.