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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.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: Upgraded Successfully to FreeBSD! Date: 8 Sep 1993 16:08:26 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <26l01q$jij@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CCz1My.FrF@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> <SWILDNER.93Sep7210637@channelz.gun.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <SWILDNER.93Sep7210637@channelz.gun.de>, Sascha Wildner <swildner@channelz.GUN.de> wrote: >In article <CCz1My.FrF@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com (Dwight E. Cass) writes: > > Well, I bit the bullet and upgraded my system from 386BSD patchkit > 0.2.4 to FreeBSD this weekend and while it took a full day, it was > pretty painless. > >Is there something like a patchkit to upgrade from 386BSD 0.2.4 to FreeBSD? >I read that someone was working on it (Nate?). How far is it? Well, it's not like a patchkit, but I do have (in BETA) now a set of script that will automatically upgrade your system from 386BSD *.*.* to FreeBSD-1.0.-*. Because of the massive changes in the binaries and system, it isn't a drop-in replacement, so the script does things in the right order and attempts to make the transition easier. If you are interested, send some email to freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com and we can get you a copy of them. 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 :-)