Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:44:39 +0200 From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 Message-ID: <1062269079.3218.14.camel@cronos.home.vsb> In-Reply-To: <200308300934.32970.kstewart@owt.com> References: <1062259088.2854.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <200308300934.32970.kstewart@owt.com>
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Ah, I indeed forgot the system information. It is a P II 333 MHZ with 256 of RAM and an UDMA 33 HD (40 GB). Judging from your timings, this is going to take a while... Does buildworld and installworld always take equally long, even say only 10 files changed? Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of (seeing that this would be the first time I attempt such a thing). On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 18:34, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:58 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > How would I best upgrade my 5.0 installation to 5.1? > > > > I have done binary (CD-ROM) updates on 4.x in the past, but I was > > thinking this could be done using cvsup. > > > > Can anyone briefly say wheter this procedure would be right: > > - change default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_0 to RELENG_5_1 > > - cvsup the new sources > > - follow instructions to buildworld+installworld in Chapter 21 of the > > handbook. > > > > Any ideas how long this would take ? > > > > It is totally a function of your computer. Since, you didn't provide > that information, we can only provide information on our personal > systems. > > I follow current, since I don't think 5.x is up to 4.x release quality > at this point. I don't think it is far off, just not quite there. A > buildworld, which is the longest part of an upgrade, requires 50+ > minutes on my AMD 1600+ with 512 MB of DDR-266 memory and 3 ATA-100 > HDs. Having less memory won't affect the build time unless you produce > swaping. Having both /usr/src and /usr/obj on the same HD will also > increase compile times. > > The buildkernel probably takes on the order of 10 minutes since it is > long enough that I won't sit there to watch and I haven't timed my > build script. The installs probably take less than 5 minutes. > > Kent
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