upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

[Filip Lenaerts]

hi all

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:17:13AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote:
> 
> FWIW I've just done a successful remote source-based upgrade from 5.4 to 
> 6.0 (I'm brave) with no problems. I use a second root and /usr to be 

also did that last night with the latest sources, but failed when booting in single user mode:  i get a kernel panic when the kernel is loading the nvidia0 device.  

> Providing you 
> remember to rebuild or disable any 5.x-era kernel modules from ports 
> (nvidia, rtc, etc) prior to the reboot it should work fine and offers a 

now this is interesting :)

i have a nvidia gforce 6600xl, but i can't remember installing/using the nvidia port.  perhaps its installed as dependency of xorg?

moreover in the sources, there is also a agp_nvidia.c.  anyone perhaps knows how this relates to the ports?  is it an equivalent?  are they redundant to eachother?

i'll try recompiling this evening the port and try a boot -s :)

filip

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