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Old 6th February 2013
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Just to clarify the ease of upgrade.... here is a typical procedure.
  1. 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.
  2. Backup!
  3. Download the 5.1 bsd.rd RAMDISK kernel for your architecture from your nearby mirror and store in your root directory.
  4. Run sysmerge(8), pointing to etc51.tgz (and optionally xetc51.tgz) on your nearby mirror
  5. Issue a reboot(8) and select the new bsd.rd kernel.
  6. Select Upgrade at the Install/Upgrade/Shell prompt.
  7. Answer upgrade script questions, such as selecting your nearby mirror and if desired, selected filesets and kernels.
  8. Issue a reboot(8) and repeat from Step 3, using the 5.2 bsd.rd instead and the *etc52.tgz fileset(s).
  9. Once the 5.2 upgrade completes, reboot multi-user and if you have packages installed, revise your $PKG_PATH and upgrade them.
  10. 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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