upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4

Tony Shadwick tshadwick at goinet.com
Mon May 23 07:36:47 PDT 2005


I can confirm here as well, went very smoothly on all counts.

Tony

On Mon, 23 May 2005 olivier.certner at free.fr wrote:

>> Has anybody done this yet? Any gotcha's, or is it a fairly smooth upgrade?
>
>   Hi!
>
>    Yes, I've done that a week ago, and everything went well. You only have to
> be careful with your compile options (in /etc/make.conf) if you have increased
> the optimization level for compiling ports (don't use more than -O).
>
>    Just follow the handbook instructions ("new" procedure) and you're on your
> way. In case something fails and if you're not familiar with the booting
> process, read the section about how to boot your old kernel if the new one
> doesn't work.
>
>    Regards,
>
>        Olivier
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