Upgrading to 7 from 6.3
Dominic Fandrey
kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Thu Feb 28 17:23:25 UTC 2008
B. Cook wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was going to try and update a box from 6.3 to 7 via buildworld all 32
> bit, nothing 64.
>
> Assuming it should be done like this:
>
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> mergemaster -p
> make installkernel
> (reboot)
> (startup on 7 kernel)
> make installworld
> mergemaster (do full mergemaster)
> make installworld
> (reboot)
>
> (make sure all is working in 7 then do it all again; just to be sure)
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> make installworld
>
>
> Sound about right? or too redundant?
>
> Thanks in advance.
The doing it all again part might bring some very slight performance
improvements due to the compiler change.
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