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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Two 2.0.5 questions Date: 2 Jun 1995 21:15:48 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3qnv24$j17@news.bu.edu> References: <3qj2eo$5ln@newshost.loc3.tandem.com> <3qjudg$oab@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sitting, working. Suddenly realized that Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: : You can still use your current 2.0R stuff, though I recommend that : you use a new root filesystem for 2.0.5R so that your /dev entries : are properly created for the slice code. Basically, I would start : fresh with a new / and /usr from 2.0.5 and use the (M)ount command : to mount your old partitions. Oops... I may sound stupid here, but does that mean that a new release is going to wipe out all the directories? I've anly installed FreeBSD once, so I do not know how it looks like. Thank you! -mi -- The following two lines are NOT related to each other! (-: "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."