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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.kth.se!dront.nada.kth.se!d88-jwn From: d88-jwn@dront.nada.kth.se (Johan Wåhlin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: upgrading from 1.1G to 1.1R Date: 14 Jun 1994 14:34:45 GMT Organization: The Royal Institute of Technology Lines: 31 Message-ID: <2tkf65$iu2@news.kth.se> References: <khzGRmu00WB80o9kg=@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dront.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Timothy J Kniveton (tim+@CMU.EDU) wrote: : ... : also, what is an easy way to upgrade from one major version to the : next? i had a bad crash with 1.0.2 and that's when i upgraded to 1.1G : -- but i did it almost from scratch and don't see an easy way to do : otherwise. Well, this is what I did (it apparantly worked): su cat bin* | tar zpxf - (in some dir with lots of space, _not_ / or /usr or /usr/local 8) shutdown now mv /sbin/init /sbin/init.old mv /386bsd /386bsd.old mv /usr/bin/tar /usr/bin/tar.old mv <wherever you extracted the bin*>/usr/lib/libc.so.1.0 <-,,->/usr/lib/libc.so.1.0.new cd <wherever you extracted the bin*> tar.old cf - * | (cd /; tar.old xpvf -) cp /usr/lib/libc.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libc.so.1.0.old (just in case 8) mv /usr/lib/libc.so.1.0.new /usr/lib/libc.so.1.0 exit The only reason for untaring the dist is to rename libc.so.1.0. There is supposed to be an --exclude argument to gnus tar but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work.. 8/ This is of course supplied as is, no guarantes.. 8) Best regards, /Johan