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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!agate!usenet From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce Subject: 386BSD -> FreeBSD 1.0 upgrade script updated Followup-To: poster Date: 27 Oct 1993 19:31:00 -0700 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 49 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <199310270142.TAA13550@bsd.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu What it is: ----------- This is to announce the (final) version of the 386BSD to FreeBSD 1.0 upgrade script. This script allows you to 'upgrade' your 386BSD 0.1 machine to FreeBSD without having to re-install and re-partition your hard disk. However, because it does not do any low-level hard disk manipulation, it can't give you a larger swap partition or help you to re-organize your hard disk partitions. For anyone still running 386BSD, I would greatly encourage you to consider upgrading, because 386BSD (even with the patchkits) is still a very buggy piece of software (even admitted by it's own author). There are security considerations that need to be taken into account especially if you are running it on a network, and most of these bugs have been fixed in FreeBSD. (Along with a large number of other bugs which affect stability and useability) Changes: -------- There have been quite a few bugs fixed since the last announcement, most notably: 1) The script now knows the correct installation file names 2) It correctly installs gcc2's C and C++ support 3) Updated the script to reflect some directory changes that have occured in the different FreeBSD releases 4) Updated the documentation to answer some common questions that arose before the upgrade and during the upgrade process. A more detailed HISTORY file can be gotten in the distribution. Where to get it? ---------------- As always, FreeBSD material can be gotten from "FreeBSD.cdrom.com", where you will always find the most recent FreeBSD distribution which is necessary for the upgrade scripts to work. (You have to have something to upgrade to :-) The upgrade scripts are located: ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.0/tools/upgrade/* Nate -- Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu