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:
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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
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