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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: upgrade 2.0 --> 2.1 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:37:30 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31D38BBA.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <4qp727$9ri@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Charles Anderson <cander@ieor.berkeley.edu> Charles Anderson wrote: > 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). It'll do pretty much everything you need without having to relabel or newfs anything. The only thing it really doesn't do is migrate all the files in your /etc, it simply saves the old contents and merges just a few things across. It will, however, tell you precisely which files you'll need to merge by hand and, in pretty much all cases, this is about 2 minutes work. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project