Finished updating the redcay lab. It seems to be doing relatively well. They started acting poorly at the beginning of the semester, so upgrading went a bit slow, but I set up a prototype machine and then copied the partitions between machines. I had tried a whole disk transfer, but the machines have slightly different drive sizes, and the whole disk transfer did not work.
I had trouble doing the transfer under ubuntu, so I used a system recovery cd, which worked fairly well. The only trick was I needed to chroot to the new partition, then use mknod to set up the sda devices, then I could use grub to setup the boot partition.
One nice thing is that they now use fvm by default, so they are a bit more responsive.
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