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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Update NetBSD->FreeBSD - How?? Date: 21 Jul 1996 19:15:20 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4stvk8$3j5@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <4sp0pj$5uq@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <yfgzq4te980.fsf@time.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: jkh@time.cdrom.com's message of 21 Jul 1996 11:45:35 -0700 [Jordan K. Hubbard] | 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?? | | Mmmmmmmaybe. :-) | | I don't know, I've certainly never tried this before and I don't know | of anyone who has. | | How would I do this update? (The Handbook was not very informative) | (I would be doing the install using FTP) | | I would simply install afresh, if I were you, but if you'd like to try | it then please get back to us and let us know if it worked. You're | out in uncharted territory now and I'm afraid that no handbook will | help you. This is certainly not one of the scenarios I've coded | for. I have done vaguely something similar: I have installed NetBSD by creating file systems under FreeBSD, untarring the NetBSD files, and fixing up by hand what needed to be fixed. Worked like a charm. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no