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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dciteleport.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!uwm.edu!news.he.net!stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!cbgw1.lucent.com!nntphub.cb.lucent.com!ssbunews.ih.lucent.com!not-for-mail From: jschol@ihgp18x.ih.att.com (John K. Scholvin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: question on upgrade 2.0 -> 2.1.5 Date: 15 Nov 1996 17:17:44 GMT Organization: Lucent Technologies, Naperville, IL Lines: 32 Message-ID: <56i8jo$ds9@ssbunews.ih.lucent.com> Reply-To: scholvin@lucent.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ihgp18x.ih.lucent.com I have a question about my impending FreeBSD upgrade. I'm running 2.0-RELEASE, and I'm about to upgrade to 2.1.5 via CD. I've got two IDE disks in my system. Both contain a FreeBSD partition *and* a DOS partition. In FreeBSD: Disk 0 has /, /usr, and swap, and disk 1 has /home. In DOS land, Disk 0 has C:, and disk 1 has D:. I don't care if I have to newfs /, /usr, and swap. I really don't want to newfs /home. Question: Will I be able to install 2.1.5 on / and /usr AND just go ahead and mount /home without some kind of reformat? Question #2: How about my DOS partitions? Are they safe? Can I just mount them, too? I realize that any installation could somehow munge the disks, and then I'd be SOL. What I'm wondering is, do I *have* to munge the disks to make this work. I understand that something fundamental in the low level land of slices/partitions has changed and might kill me here. I guess that's really the question: can I do this without some kind of low-level disk format? I hope not... Thanks, John -- John Scholvin \ 2000 N. Naperville Road / tel 630.713.7300 scholvin@lucent.com \ PO Box 3033 / fax 630.979.5754 Lucent Technologies \ Naperville, IL 60566-7033 / pgr 312.614.2978