basic upgrade from drupal 5 to drupal 6

Outlining the basic process I'm taking to upgrade this site to Drupal 6.

(8:45 pm)

Installed Modules

• node_clone
• codefilter
• these are available for Drupal 6. Great!

prep

• making backup of files and db
• copied new core files in
• merged settings.php's and .htaccesses
• site in offline mode
• switching to Garland theme
• disabled the 2 contrib modules

the real deal

• uploading new core files (everything except the sites folder), this includes .htaccess.
• uploading the new settings.php
• going to /update.php and accepting the defaults
• enabled some new modules like Update Status
• posted updated version of the 2 modules and enabled them

some additional tweaks

• tweaked some additional things

(9:45)
Up and running