amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0

[Dieter]

> * install 6.x (tried 6.1-RELEASE succesfully)
> * patch ata-chipeset.c in FreeBSD-7.0 sources
> * do the source upgrade to 7.0
> * report back on failure/success
> 
> BTW, are the instructions on 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-6x-7x.txt
> essentially right? Or are there any corrections or
> recommendations to upgrade a fresh, minimal install of 6.x
> to 7.x? (e.g. do I need to use rse's freebsd-adm kit to do
> the upgrade? I've noticed that basically it runs cvsup +
> build world et al.)

If it were me, I'd install 7.x in a different partition/slice
and leave the 6.x partition/slice alone.  Then you have no risk
of 6.x files hanging around to confuse the issue, and if you
need another patch you don't have to repeat steps 1 & 2.