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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Update NetBSD->FreeBSD - How??
Date: 21 Jul 1996 08:57:40 GMT
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daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) wrote:

> I have a NetBSD 1.0 system which I would like ot upgrade
> to FreeBSD 2.1.5.  I read on a previous post that the
> file systems are compatible.  Does this mean that
> I can just copy over the binaries and I'm off to 
> FreeBSD-Land?  Is it possible to retain the data already
> on the disk??

Basically yes.  It's perhaps best to boot the installation floppy,
and select the F)ixit option.  You can then mount your disks
manually.

The distfiles are basically the same format as in NetBSD, i.e. split
.tar.gz files.

-- 
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. ;-)