4.x -> 5.x

[Łukasz Bromirski]

Alex Povolotsky wrote:

> TF> Is there any particular reason to do these steps 5-7 instead of just
> TF> a 'make installworld' ?
> Oh, YES IT IS!
> Yesterday, I've tried to upgrade 5.1 to 5.2. For some unknown yet to me reason
 > (I'm investigating), make installworld failed somehwere in between, 
and I had
 > to reinstall 5.1 from CD... Most of userlad programs crashed early, 
including
 > csh, ls and even sh...

You simply didn't read /usr/src/UPDATING note, added on
2003-11-12. It starts with:

  "The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields".

There's a *DANGER* section below and if You fail to do it as it's
written there, You'll very likely fail with crashing applications and
non-functional system.

I did 5.1->5.2 remote (ssh only) upgrade yesterday without any fancy
`tar -C /usr/tmpfs -cpf . | tar -C / -xpvf' constructions.

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Łukasz Bromirski                             lbromirski:mr0vka,eu,org