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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!sgigate.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!usenet 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 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4qp727$9ri@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lolita.hip.berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 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!