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From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: To all people upgrading from FreeBSD GAMMA to EPSILON
Organization: private 386bsd site
References: <JKH.93Oct6061241@whisker.lotus.ie>
Message-ID: <CEMGD6.wH@luva.stgt.sub.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 08:46:03 GMT
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In article <JKH.93Oct6061241@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>Some people have reported that 'make world' falls over after applying
>the EPSILON patch.  Our apologies, but the update script that Nate was
>writing got delayed and I fell down on updating the documentation to
>reflect the prerequisite build sequence required for the first make
>after updating:
>
>If you've just applied the EPSILON patches to a running GAMMA system
>(this does NOT apply if you've simply installed EPSILON from scratch),

What about the following configuration:
- GAMMA sourcedist
- applied GAMMA-to-EPSILON over GAMMA sourcedist
- ready to use Nate's upgrade script from 386bsd to FreeBSD

will I blow up my system?

or is this considerated as EPSILON installed from scratch
(and therefore "harmless")?


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