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Old 21st January 2010
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Additionally, one can "upgrade" from the latest -release or -stable to -current. Since -current is a constantly moving target, there is no Upgrade Guide. The steps are:
  1. Review the Following -current FAQ, noting every change you will have to make.
  2. Back up your system.
  3. Download the most recent snapshot's installation media you will use: a compact disc ISO, a diskette image, or the ramdisk kernel. The kernel can be booted from an existing bootblock program, or from a network boot server.
  4. Conduct the upgrade
  5. Boot into single user mode
  6. Mount all file systems
  7. Using the Following -current FAQ, manually or semi-automatically make every change described, when applicable to your architecture.
  8. Exit single user mode, and test that all services start and all subsystems and applications are functioning as intended.
  9. Return to single user mode.
  10. Update installed packages. For some architectures, so called "snapshot packages" may be available. They will -not- be in sync with your snapshot, and may or may not update. You will need to manually build packages from ports for those that fail to update.
  11. Return to multi user mode. Test all updated applications.
You can -then- move beyond the latest snapshot, by rebuilding from -current source, per FAQ 5 and of course, the Following -current FAQ, as the snapshot you use may be older than the most recent architectural change.
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