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From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any suggestions on upgrade 2.0R -> 2.0.5R
Date: 12 Jun 1995 03:01:57 GMT
Organization: At Home; Salida, CA
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>Does anyone have any suggestions on an upgrade path from 2.0R to 2.0.5R. 

I did a fresh install, in order to get my root drive reconfigured using the
new slice code.  Not counting the up-front time to copy /usr/local, parts of
/usr/src (with my hacks), my configs from /etc, and my personal data to my
data drive, the install took about 4 hours over a 56Kb connection back to the
Internet.  That includes 3 hours of downloading files over the link, and
about an hour of fiddling to get stable before going to bed.

A related observation for anyone making the same upgrade - I made my own
kernel config under 2.0R, and tried using it to build a kernel on 2.0.5R.
That turned out to be a small mistake, as the kernel would finish fsck and
then panic.  Creating a similar config from GENERIC works fine, and I'm
running on it now.

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Scott Hazen Mueller | scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG or tandem!zorch!scott