Re: Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

From: Kent Stewart (kstewart_at_owt.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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    To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:34:32 -0700

    On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:58 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
    > How would I best upgrade my 5.0 installation to 5.1?
    >
    > I have done binary (CD-ROM) updates on 4.x in the past, but I was
    > thinking this could be done using cvsup.
    >
    > Can anyone briefly say wheter this procedure would be right:
    > - change default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_0 to RELENG_5_1
    > - cvsup the new sources
    > - follow instructions to buildworld+installworld in Chapter 21 of the
    > handbook.
    >
    > Any ideas how long this would take ?
    >

    It is totally a function of your computer. Since, you didn't provide
    that information, we can only provide information on our personal
    systems.

    I follow current, since I don't think 5.x is up to 4.x release quality
    at this point. I don't think it is far off, just not quite there. A
    buildworld, which is the longest part of an upgrade, requires 50+
    minutes on my AMD 1600+ with 512 MB of DDR-266 memory and 3 ATA-100
    HDs. Having less memory won't affect the build time unless you produce
    swaping. Having both /usr/src and /usr/obj on the same HD will also
    increase compile times.

    The buildkernel probably takes on the order of 10 minutes since it is
    long enough that I won't sit there to watch and I haven't timed my
    build script. The installs probably take less than 5 minutes.

    Kent 

    -- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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