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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
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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