On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Michael W. Oliver wrote: > 1. Be prepared to spend a lot of time in single-user mode, especially > for the 4->5 step, because there is a LOT for mergemaster to do. The > step from 5->6 is not nearly as painful. I didn't try to do the > installworld and mergemaster in multiuser, and if you do then have a > bigger set than I do.
If you're setting up machines that you're going to be upgrading like this in the future, I think it's _really_ worthwhile hacking out a couple of "root slices" - that is, space for a second / and /usr - to facilitate this. You can run mergemaster on a secondary copy of your /etc (this, of course, requries that the contents of /etc are relatively quiescent for this step) and tidy up by hand. You can perform a dump & restore followed by a source upgrade, a fresh source install or a binary upgrade ad lib; just reboot (with nextboot) when done. This also means you can keep the previous OS around for a while in case there are problems with the new one. For setups that aren't amenable to automated deployments this works pretty well and gives you a safety-net for upgrades. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ We thought time travel was impossible. But that was now and this is then. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
