upgrading
Beecher Rintoul
akbeech at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 13:46:50 PDT 2005
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:28 pm, eoghan wrote:
> Hello
> Im going to do a fresh install of 5.3 over the weekend, then id like
> to upgrade to 5.4. My reasons for upgrading are: ill have to do it
> some time or another and I cant always rely on having my trusty dvd
> with me. So, the question is: what is the best way to do an upgrade?
> I figure ill do the install, make sure its all ok, and before I go
> ahead and install anything ill upgrade. I did hear people say that
> using the sysinstall isnt the way to go - maybe or maybe not? So any
> opinions here on how it should be done would be appreciated.
To save yourself some time, just boot from your disk change the tag in the
options screen to 5.4-RELEASE and do a net install. No need to start from
5.3.
Beech
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