I just upgraded from FreeBSD-5.4 to FreeBSD-6.0 stable. It really went very smoothly. Well done to all concerned. A few things that could make it a little easier: 1. I have a habit of doing the mergemaster stuff in a slightly different order. Any chance of updating pwd_mkdb and cap_mkdb in FreeBSD-5.4 to the FreeBSD-6 version? 2. In UPDATING, remind people to switch off the nvidia_load stuff in /boot/loader.conf (and any other exernally created modules), before first rebooting to the new kernel. Best Stephen
> I just upgraded from FreeBSD-5.4 to FreeBSD-6.0 stable. It really went > very smoothly. Well done to all concerned./me too I had a machine that was absolutely useless with 5.x -- dog slow, and suffered from random instablility (but no panics or other reportable phenomenon.) I ugpraded to 6.0-RC1 the other night and it was better than I would have imagined. I still have a lot of 4.x machines, and they will be skipping the 5.x experiment and moving right to 6.0. Kudos to all involved. -- Matt Emmerton
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:47:22 -0600 Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> wrote:> I just upgraded from FreeBSD-5.4 to FreeBSD-6.0 stable. It really > went very smoothly. Well done to all concerned.I agree. I just finished a source upgrade from 5.4-stable to 6.0-stable (well, RELENG_6) on a ThinkPad T41 and everything went smooth. Well done! I can't wait to try out all the new "stuff" (functionality) that 6.0 gives us. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen