Upgrading a remote box from 5.3 to 6-stable....

[Dan O'Connor]

> I recently got a leased server that's running 5.3.  It's in Texas. 
> I'm in Washington.  I want to upgrade it to 6-STABLE.  In the update 
> docs it says that "when doing a major release upgrade, it is required 
> that you boot into single user mode to do the installworld."
>
> Which obviously is a problem.  And I find it hard to believe it's 
> really necessary as this is going to be an issue for a lot of people. 
> Is this similar to the old recommendation of doing this "unless your 
> system is relatively quiet"?

Although you're not supposed to do it, I upgraded a 5.4 system to 6.0, 
and several 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0p1, without dropping to single-user mode, 
and without any problems.

But, these are "relatively quite" servers (Apache, Samba, Postfix, 
Network Gateway) with no other users logged in.

YMMV...

~Dan