Rebuilding, Got Questions

[Derek Ragona]

You should cvsup to update your sources. I believe it is recommended you 
first update to 5.5, then update again to 6.1.

Once you cvsup read the UPDATING file in /usr/src.

I would be wary of using the -j4 it has caused some issues, check UPDATING 
before using that flag.

         -Derek


At 01:44 PM 8/15/2006, beno wrote:
>Hi;
>The box I've taken over has BSD 5.3 so I need to upgrade. This is a big 
>jump and the console is half a world away so I have some questions:
>* Can I do all of the steps of the installation without reverting to 
>single user mode?
>* Where do I find the src to download?? All I find are ISOs. Is there no 
>*.tgz file anywhere?
>* I'm upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1. Will I have to run "mergemaster -p" 
>before running "buildworld"?
>
>Do I need anything more in /etc/make.conf than the following?
>CFLAGS= -O -pipe
>NO_BLUETOOTH=  true    # I have no need of this
>NO_SENDMAIL=   true    # I use qmail
>
>The current /etc/make.conf has this and I don't understand why:
>
># -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
># Created: Wed Dec 21 21:11:27 2005
># Setting to use base perl from ports:
>PERL_VER=5.8.5
>PERL_VERSION=5.8.5
>PERL_ARCH=mach
>NOPERL=yo
>NO_PERL=yo
>NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
>
>Should I leave the above? Merge the two? Throw out the above and just use 
>what I've written (above that)? Will that screw up the installation? Will 
>that screw up perl?
>
>Here is my procedure. Look good?
>
>cd /usr/src
>make -j4 buildworld // single CPU system
>make buildkernel
>make installkernel
>reboot
>make installworld
>mergemaster -p
>reboot
>
>TIA,
>beno
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