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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.fiu.edu!news.aoml.erl.gov!news.miami.edu!ivan From: ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu (Ivan Lima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: update to a snap Date: 31 May 1995 21:46:00 GMT Organization: U of Miami/RSMAS Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3qio2o$9d2@umigw.miami.edu> References: <801015476k70585&1147298525r114@zurich.gcomm.com> <3pmv74$2ll@agate.berkeley.edu> <3q89af$1do@imp.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu Originator: ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu In article <3q89af$1do@imp.demon.co.uk>, Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> writes: |> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) wrote: |> >In article <801015476k70585&1147298525r114@zurich.gcomm.com>, |> >CaptBly <captbly@zurich.gcomm.com> wrote: |> >>how do you update FreeBSD to one of the newer snaps without loosing |> >>everything?? |> > |> >At this time, you don't. You back up any data you'd like to save and |> >you load the snap from scratch. |> > |> |> I don't understand this (oft repeated) official advice that upgrading |> between snaps can't be done. I have gone from 2.0R->snap1->snap2->last snap |> by the following: |> |> 1. Take a backup of /etc |> 2. Put the bindist somewhere handy and execute extract.sh |> 3. Edit the resulting /etc to suit my machine, maybe picking pieces |> out of my backup copy |> 4. Either drop in a kernel compiled on one of my other machines, or |> reboot with generic kernel, extract kernel src and compile one |> 5. reboot and all done. |> |> |> I haven't been struck by lightning yet, so I must be doing somthing wrong! |> |> |> I appreciate that some upgrades will make radical change to disk layout and |> hence need a backup->clean install->restore process, but all of this year's |> snaps seem to have been compatible to this extent. |> I upgraded to the latest SNAP doing exactly what you described, and I still see these posts saying it has to be done from scratch. I worked perfectly for me. I wonder why people still say it has to be done from scratch.