Oliver Fromme wrote:
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Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
That's exactly what I did. I installed a new machine from
a 5.4-Release DVD-ROM, then updated to RELENG_5, and then
went to RELENG_6 from there. The only special thing I had
to do was to manually rm -rf /usr/obj, otherwise the build-
world broke.
Oh yeah, I did rm -r the object tree, I forgot about that. It
was kind of a reflex thing when it failed.
Of course you should do take the usual precautions, i.e.
have a reliable backup, read UPDATING, don't forget to run
mergemaster etc.
Best regards
Oliver
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