From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 14:20:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA0316A421 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:20:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552DC43D55 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:20:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from [204.147.87.125] (borg.iaces.com [204.147.87.125]) (authenticated bits=0) by iaces.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA9EKb2N003219 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:20:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <4372059C.8040806@iaces.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:20:12 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Claus Guttesen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Pete French Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:20:40 -0000 I did this on a Sun Ultra5 system last night. I forgot (as I usually do) mergemaster -p. But everything worked fine. The -p usually just catches missing users and such that could cause install problems. Claus Guttesen wrote: > *********************** > This message has been scanned by the InterScan for CSC-SSM and found to be free of known security risks. > ***********-*********** > > > >>usually when I upgrade across major versions of BSD I wipe the whole >>machine and re--install from scratch. But I understand that the move >>to 6.0 from 5.4 is nowhere near such a big leap. >> >>So I was wondering hether I could just do this from source without any >>ill effects, as if I was upgrading 5.4->5.5. I have nnever tried this before >>though, and was wondering if there are any major pitfalls (i.e. is it actually >>a really bad idea?) > > > The easiest would be to > > 1. cvsup to RELENG_6 (or RELENG_6_0) > 2. cd /usr/src > 3. make buildworld > 4. make buildkernel > 5. make installkernel > 6. mergemaster -p > 7. reboot into single-usermode and verify your new kernel works > 8. mount -a > 9. make installworld > 10. mergemaster > 11. reboot > > All described in /usr/src/Makefile (and the handbook). You may need to > reinstall some apps, but most should work with compat5x in place. > > regards > Claus > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ______ Paul T. Root / _ \ 1977 MGB / /|| \\ ||\/ || _ | || || || \ ||__// \______/