On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Randy Bush wrote:
do folk actually successfully upgrade
# uname -a
FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386
to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the instructions
in UPDATING?
I've upgraded both 5.x to 6.x without serious problems, or even much work.
The usual advice holds: a serial console is invaluable, especially when
working remotely. You're much more likely to run into application upgrade
problems when you rebuild them all (or do binary updates), so you might
consider updating all your applications first using portupgrade so that you
can separate the issue of upgrading applications and OS. You'll have to
immediately rebuild the apps again after the OS upgrade, but it will be a
rebuild of the same version of an app, rather than sliding version numbers.
Do make sure to boot a 6.x kernel with your 5.x userland and test things out a
bit - make sure your hardware probes, is reliable, etc.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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