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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1 Upgrade: ? Date: 20 Nov 1995 00:55:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <48ojmu$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48lhnv$gn4@news.service.uci.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ssapozni@mercury.sfsu.edu (Sam Sapoznick) writes: > I've read the FAQ's, but haven't been able to figure out how to upgrade my > 2.0.5 system to 2.1. > Specifically, can I run some sort of installer from within my > currently running system, (as opposed to using the FreeBSD > boot/install floppy, the latest versionof which causes my machine to > reboot ten seconds into the boot process)? Ideally, I'd like to run > the installer and install on a separate hard disk via FTP ot NFS. Nope, you have to boot the regular installation floppy, but then, you can select the "Upgrade" item. I've done this a few hours ago (with my private pre-2.1 self-built ``release''), and it worked reasonably well. It leaves you with half a dozen of files that it doesn't want to merge automatically, and offers you a shell finally to hand-merge them before rebooting. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)