Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 6.2

[Peter Boosten]

Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
> 
> Ralph,
> 
> I found Ralph Engelschall scripts to upgrade FreeBSD systems.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-5x-6x.txt
> 
> But there's a line saying :
> 
> ****
> The following is a step-by-step procedure for upgrading a server from
> FreeBSD 5.[45]-STABLE to a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE.
> ****
> 
> Probably this line tell me that I can't use it to upgrade from 5.3 to
> 6.2. If I'm write, what can I do and how to modify it to upgrade a 5.3
> box ? Any other suggestion ???

The only thing I did was adding the following line to /etc/make.conf:

COMPAT5x=      yes

Worked like charm for 3 different machines.

Peter
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