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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading to FreeBSD? Date: 3 Sep 1993 21:38:48 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 32 Message-ID: <268dh8$4s9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CCsGBv.9Az@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CCsGBv.9Az@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>, Dwight E. Cass <dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com> wrote: >There was some discussion about the possibility of upgrading a >386bsd+patchkit 0.2.4 system to FreeBSD when it came out. Has >this idea been abandoned? Nope, but the guy writing the upgrade script started school. :-( I'm very close to being done, and there were a couple outstanding issues that were dealt with when the release was made. :-) I hope to finish things up this weekend. (No guarantees though, I don't get paid to do this) It should be VERY straightforward, although with the Math library fixes now in the system, most of the binaries 10-40K bigger, so hopefully everything will still fit on your system. (Things work as expected now when doing math calculations. If you get a signal in FreeBSD, it's because something besides the O.S./libraries is messed up.) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)