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From: cander@ieor.berkeley.edu (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: upgrade 2.0 --> 2.1
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:18:04 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Real Soon Now I'll be upgrading my FreeBSD 2.0 to 2.1.  I'm wondering
if there are any non-obvious gotchas or shortcuts to be aware of,
especially since I skipped over 2.0.5.  I've got the CD-ROM release
from Walnut Creek.

In particular, will the "upgrade" installation work?  The
documentation does not sound particularly hopeful.  How much (if any)
of the disk manipulation can I avoid?  I have the "core" operating
system on a 100 Meg parition on drive 0 and the rest (X11, /usr/local,
my stuff) on drive 1.  Do I need to re-label the disks?  Do I need to
re-newfs the file systems?  Etc.  (I have complete backups, but I'd
prefer to leave the data on the disks if possible).


Thanks,
Charles.

P.S. The new installation manual is a great improvement over the liner
notes in 2.0.  Keep up the good work and tell the whiners to bugger
off!