You should cvsup to update your sources. I believe it is recommended you
first update to 5.5, then update again to 6.1.
Once you cvsup read the UPDATING file in /usr/src.
I would be wary of using the -j4 it has caused some issues, check UPDATING
before using that flag.
-Derek
At 01:44 PM 8/15/2006, beno wrote:
Hi;
The box I've taken over has BSD 5.3 so I need to upgrade. This is a big
jump and the console is half a world away so I have some questions:
* Can I do all of the steps of the installation without reverting to
single user mode?
* Where do I find the src to download?? All I find are ISOs. Is there no
*.tgz file anywhere?
* I'm upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1. Will I have to run "mergemaster -p"
before running "buildworld"?
Do I need anything more in /etc/make.conf than the following?
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
NO_BLUETOOTH= true # I have no need of this
NO_SENDMAIL= true # I use qmail
The current /etc/make.conf has this and I don't understand why:
# -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
# Created: Wed Dec 21 21:11:27 2005
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
PERL_VER=5.8.5
PERL_VERSION=5.8.5
PERL_ARCH=mach
NOPERL=yo
NO_PERL=yo
NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
Should I leave the above? Merge the two? Throw out the above and just use
what I've written (above that)? Will that screw up the installation? Will
that screw up perl?
Here is my procedure. Look good?
cd /usr/src
make -j4 buildworld // single CPU system
make buildkernel
make installkernel
reboot
make installworld
mergemaster -p
reboot
TIA,
beno
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