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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgraded Successfully to FreeBSD! Date: 9 Sep 1993 21:37:11 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <26o7m7$sn8@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CCz1My.FrF@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu 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: > > 1. I had to finally relabel my disk (i.e., run disklabel > and install the new boot blocks) since FreeBSD would not > boot with my old boot blocks. Ran disklabel off of the > FreeBSD disk with my old disktab file - worked fine. > (i.e., no files lost..) Hmm, I'm *still* running the 0.1 (no patchkit, no fixes, no changes, no nothing) bootblocks with FreeBSD, so I'm not exactly sure why the old bootblocks don't work. I am running a FreeBSD only box though, with no partitioning on the drive. But, glad to hear everything is working. (And I recommend that you do upgrade the bootblocks, I've just been to lazy) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)