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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] Is upgrading safe ? Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:16:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <54vuc9$pqf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DzvJts.Co7.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) wrote: > I am planning on upgrading from 2.2 snap Feb, to the latest Snap. > Now I know that it is possible, and the instructions would > indicate that it's pretty straight forward. What I need to know, is just > how fraught with danger is it really? Keep a good backup of your /etc files around (e.g., in your home directory). The logic that helps you upgrading the /etc files might experience unexpected behaviour. Apart from this, i think it's straightforward. Disclaimer: the last time i've been using it myself was for a 2.0.5 -> 2.1 upgrade. -- 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. ;-)