5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky?

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:

> For bumping it up to 5-current, would a cvsup of the sources with "tag=."
> be sufficient? Or is an install from scratch recommended when moving
> from 4-stable to 5-current? Bear in mind that these are going to be my
> first steps into 5-current!
>

Hmm, no.

In theory yes, when you go to some really painful steps (read UPDATING),
but due to the nature that even within 5.x were some changes, its easier
to wipe the system, do a blank install of a 5.2 system from scratch and
then cvsup it to -current. Will simplify a lot.

Just my 0.02 EUR
Olaf

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