freeBSD 6.2 installation possible/not/how?

[porkchop]

Can anyone comment as to whether it is possible to install 8.10 on FreeBSD6.2 or not?

Certainly 8.01 will not install on FBSD6.2, just tried that and the install blew up and aborted.

I know my client thought he was doing the smartest thing possible by installing the "latest and greatest" FreeBSD on his box, but before I give him some bad news, I'd like to see if it's possible to give him _some_ version of Plesk, whether or not it's 8.1 or the earlier version.

Regards & TIA,
Porky

 

[sabregroup]

I had the same problem but after a support ticket to Plesk and now I have it running.

 

[leojs]

Hi, can you share what the issue was with FreeBSD 6.2 and what support suggested to help you make it successful?

We are in the process of building a new Plesk server and were ready to load FreeBSD 6.2. If that is NOT recommended, I can certainly obtain the .iso for an older version.

I would appreciate any feedback on this from other folks running FreeBSD with Plesk.

Thank you in advance for any replies.

 

[Travis@]

We're currently running Plesk 8.1 on FreeBSD 6.2. The build had its issues but nothing that didn't happen on 6.1 too.

Personally, I've never seen a clean install where someone just runs the autoinstaller and everything builds and finishes with "Installation Successful!" and boom.

Has anyone?

Some things had to be built separately, that's about it. Primarily various Ruby components.

Ay any rate, we have 6.2 running 8.1 as we speak, so yes it is possible.

Best,

Travis

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

Officially FreeBSD 6.2 is not supported as there is no build for it on SWsoft's site. But you can use the same build as for 6.1 version. As I know many customers are using it and it works fine. I have also figured out that there should not be any FreBSD 6.2 specific problems with Plesk. You can try it and if any problems occur post your problems here. I'm sure we will find the way to resolve it.

 

[porkchop]

Originally posted by Dmitry Frantsev
Officially FreeBSD 6.2 is not supported as there is no build for it on SWsoft's site. But you can use the same build as for 6.1 version. As I know many customers are using it and it works fine. I have also figured out that there should not be any FreBSD 6.2 specific problems with Plesk. You can try it and if any problems occur post your problems here. I'm sure we will find the way to resolve it.

Thanks Dmitry (and also to everyone else who jumped in on this topic).
We finally got 8.1 running on FreeBSD 6.2. It was not without pain, but worthwhile in the end. One thing we definitely needed to make this work, was what I've described as a "liar script", that goes something like this:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/uname $* | sed 's/6.2/6.0/g'

Once that was in place as /usr/sbin/uname, the installer started grinding away happily. I deleted it when the install was completed

We do have some residual issues, but I'll post those we are unable to resolve in the appropriate forum.

Many thanks!
Warm Regards,
-Porky

 

[hosxt]

The above script worked and I was able to get Plesk installed on FreeBSD. However, I'm still having some issues.

My main one that I'm concerned with currently is the Migration Manager module. I went to updates (as it didn't install originally even though I choose it) and selected it for installation. I received a report that it installed succesfully and shows up in Updates as installed and the current version

But on the server page migration manager is grayed out and the help text shows that migration manager is not installed.

I've been able to get other modules installed. Migration manager just is deciding to not want to show up for some reason.

I'm very reluctantly close to reloading with RHEL just to avoid any compatibility issues and have a "stable" platform to run Plesk on. I'd don't want to go with a Platform that has troubles.

 

[porkchop]

Originally posted by hosxt
The above script worked and I was able to get Plesk installed on FreeBSD. However, I'm still having some issues.

Yeah, I can imagine!

I've been able to get other modules installed. Migration manager just is deciding to not want to show up for some reason.

Well, I'd suggest taking that issue to the Troubleshooting forum as a standalone post.

I'm very reluctantly close to reloading with RHEL just to avoid any compatibility issues and have a "stable" platform to run Plesk on. I'd don't want to go with a Platform that has troubles.

Odd that you should bring this up....on a separate note, we decided to experient with openvz and this required - as a prerequisite - RHEL or CentOS, so we installed the latter, openvz next, followed by Plesk.

All I can say is that I'm stunned. For years I've been a BSD nut, doggedly sticking with it for all our Plesk boxes since Plesk 5.x. But, following CentOS/openvz installation - Plesk installed "1.2.3" the way it probably always should, and has worked flawlessly ever since. It felt like Plesk was made for CentOS, the two just work so well together. (I've since heard that Plesk was in fact primarily developed for a RedHat environment) and it sure does seem as if it "likes" its environment a whole lot!

I would be prepared to recommend CentOS to anyone for a Plesk foundation, it's a smooth distro. SO smooth in fact, that we're considering migrating all our BSD boxes to CentOS (and possibly openvz as well, but that's a post for a Virtuozzo forum and not here).

Just my $0.02 worth.

Perhaps this will help to frame your problem and potential range of solutions in a different light. Good luck with the project!!

-Porky