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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Upgrading just binaries to 1.1.5.1?
Date: 14 Jul 1994 06:33:57 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <knight.4.00099DA4@caboom.zko.dec.com> knight@caboom.zko.dec.com (Dave Knight) writes:
>In article <LEWIKK.94Jul9205222@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com> lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com (Kevin K. Lewis) writes:
>>From: lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com (Kevin K. Lewis)
>>Subject: Upgrading just binaries to 1.1.5.1?
>>Date: 10 Jul 1994 01:52:22 GMT
>>I'm running FreeBSD 1.1R. I would like to upgrade to 1.1.5.1 without
>>having to load all the 1.1 sources and all the 1.1.5.1 diffs.
>A number of such requests have been made (apparently without answers, from
>what I can see in the group) and I'm asking as well.
>My perusal of the various install documents "implies" that if I just do a
>reinstall from floppies and then install the bin_tgz.xx files that I'll have
>effectively upgraded from 1.1 to 1.1.5.1. Is this true? Will this do a "fresh"
>installation, therefore wiping out everything in my current 1.1 environment,
If you start by doing an install from the kcopy and filesys floppies,
you will land up newfs'ing your disk again - which will tend to destroy
your existing setup.
I would recommend reinstalling and then reloading /home /usr/local etc
from tape, and then replacing some of the files in /etc by hand.
I would not recommend extracting the bindist over your exsiting system,
unless you know exactly what you are doing -- it's very easy to cause
yourself some nastiness, especially by nuking your shared libraries ;-)
(One upgrade based on a full install, and then reloading local files
from tape took me a little over 2 hours.)
Geoff.
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