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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to upgrade FreeBSD w/o repartitioning? Date: 28 Aug 94 13:34:51 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 36 Message-ID: <arog.778080891@BIX.com> References: <338pnr$cvu@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham) writes: >I am attempting to get with the program and upgrade from FreeBSD 1.0.2 >to 1.1.5.1. But I am stuck. What I want is to get all the new >binaries on the disk without disturbing the other contents. But the >installation scripts appear to insist on running newfs on all your >file systems. Can't find this answer in any of the installation notes >or FAQs. I must be missing something. >Any help gratefully received. > - Dave Cottingham > dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov Dave, I'll suggest making a second filesystem floppy (as the start of a PaNiC_Disk. Edit the 'install' script to remove or comment-out the lines that relate to creating the filesystems, leaving only the stuff that installs the files. Probably fastest to go to the end of the file and page back. While the comments are terse, the commands themselves should give a clear indication as to where to hack. Once thats done, the only problem that I would expect would be one of read-only on files that exist on the disk. If you are using a seperate fs for your /usr, then you probably want to have a pause point at the start of the script so that you can ^C out, mount the filesystems, and then restart the install... or just take the install line out of the .profile and then mount and start it from the command line. .......................................................... Alan Ogden Moderator of 'nos' for BIX arog@BIX.com