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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!dim From: dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 -> 2.0 FAQ? Date: 1 Mar 1995 23:45:05 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3j30u1$p6h@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu Is there an upgrade FAQ out there anywhere? I am happily running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on my system [ASUS SP3G, NCR SCSI, 1.05 gig SCSI-2 disk, 16 meg RAM...] with both XFree 2.1 and Xfree 3.1 installed (I had older binaries I wanted to save - the 2.1 tree is almost skeletal as I've recompiled a lot). So, I am wondering if there's a FAQ out there to help me. I have all of the FreeBSD 2.0-R distributions sitting in /usr/build and I am not sure which I need and which I don't. I am also not sure about this generic kernel which unpacks - does it support the NCR controller? I have a _lot_ of 1.1.5.1 binaries that I'd like to continue using, but I want the improved version of the OS (mostly for FIFO support). I'm not sure what I can keep and what I should toss out, as well as what parts of the new distributions I should add. I was just "diff"ing everything, but that got to be ridiculous. Should I just rename my old filesystem, and then lay down the new one? I have no idea, and the INSTALL notes and the FreeBSD.FAQ weren't at all useful... Thanks for any and all help or advice! Dimitrios