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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Update NetBSD->FreeBSD - How?? Date: 21 Jul 1996 11:45:35 -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Lines: 26 Message-ID: <yfgzq4te980.fsf@time.cdrom.com> References: <4sp0pj$5uq@walt.ee.pdx.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com In-reply-to: daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu's message of 19 Jul 1996 22:04:35 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4sp0pj$5uq@walt.ee.pdx.edu> daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) writes: 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. Jordan -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project