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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!news.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: Re: Upgraded Successfully to FreeBSD! Message-ID: <1993Sep8.010309.2610@sophia.smith.edu> Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA References: <CCz1My.FrF@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 01:03:09 GMT Lines: 35 In article <CCz1My.FrF@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>, Dwight E. Cass <dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com> wrote: >Well, I bit the bullet and upgraded my system from 386BSD patchkit >0.2.4 to FreeBSD this weekend and while it took a full day, it was >pretty painless. Here is a quick summary of things I found: It took me less time because I new at the outset that I wanted to re-partition so I just marched right in. The only hitch was when I accidentally told install that I had a 200 meg drive instead of 100. It got a bit confused when it was only half way through formatting and hit the end of the disk. 8] The next attempt, the power went out while unpacking stuff. The third time was the charm! Since my /usr/local is a whole separate disk, getting rolling again was pretty simple. If I might be so bold as to make a suggestion as to the the organization of the distribution files, I would like to see the necessary source to re-build a the kernel packed separately from the rest of the source. I suspect there are many people like myself who don't really want to deal with the whole 9 yards of source code, but DO want to get the kernel a little better suited to their purposes. >At-a-boys all around to >everyone involved with this release! > >Thanks for FreeBSD! Ditto! -john -- === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ ======================================= Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===