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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!fox!yzalkow From: yzalkow@fox.ee.vt.edu (Yuval Zalkow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: What is the best way to upgfrom 2.0R to 2.5R Date: 22 Jun 1995 17:46:13 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3sca95$c9j@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fox.ee.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] (Sorry about the 2.5R, I know it's 2.0.5R, but I found it too late, and editing that out in VI is troublesome at best.) I think the subject, does, or should, say it all. (Tin started doing weird stuff to me while typing it in.) Anyway, I have a 2.0R system now and would like to have a 2.5R system. This doesn't seem like it should be that difficult. I read a couple of messages about using SUP to get the new install, another that said just download the binaries and install them over 2.0R. Neither of these sound too appealing to me. Right now I have a pretty standard setup with almost all of the software I installed in /usr/local; so I could in theory take my user and local partitions out of the fstab file and then try to reformat only the / and /usr partitions and install 2.0.5R on there. Anyway, does anybody have a good method, one that's reliable, (maybe even "supported",) that I could use, that would pretty much gurantee me a good install? I think this is one of FreeBSD's biggest missing problems, there isn't an upgrade method...at least that I know of. I've been running FreeBSD since the 2.0-ALPHA release. I like it a lot, but every install method I've seen on it so far is really bad--its really difficult to get installed. Other than that, it's wonderful. Thank you for your help. Chris Inacio ------------------------ cinacio@vt.edu yzalkow@birch.ee.vt.edu inacio@x-logic.async.vt.edu <----- The FreeBSD machine I run cinacio@x-logic.async.vt.edu <-----