6th February 2013
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More noise than signal
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 7,977
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Just to clarify the ease of upgrade.... here is a typical procedure.
- Read the upgrade guides for 5.1 and 5.2, taking note of any manual steps or special requirements you may have for your environment.
- Backup!
- Download the 5.1 bsd.rd RAMDISK kernel for your architecture from your nearby mirror and store in your root directory.
- Run sysmerge(8), pointing to etc51.tgz (and optionally xetc51.tgz) on your nearby mirror
- Issue a reboot(8) and select the new bsd.rd kernel.
- Select Upgrade at the Install/Upgrade/Shell prompt.
- Answer upgrade script questions, such as selecting your nearby mirror and if desired, selected filesets and kernels.
- Issue a reboot(8) and repeat from Step 3, using the 5.2 bsd.rd instead and the *etc52.tgz fileset(s).
- Once the 5.2 upgrade completes, reboot multi-user and if you have packages installed, revise your $PKG_PATH and upgrade them.
- If any of your packages include running daemons, you can either reboot(8) or migrate into single-user mode and then return to multi-user mode with # kill 1 followed by an # exit.
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