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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.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: New [Free]BSD Install Disks Available Date: 17 Sep 1993 06:14:18 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 43 Message-ID: <27bkjq$l7r@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <almCDBqDD.48E@netcom.com> <CDH3Du.As0@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <27bbh8$ko0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <27bbh8$ko0@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Jaye Mathisen <osyjm@cs.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <CDH3Du.As0@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, >M.C. Wong <wongm@ipc6.lat.oz.au> wrote: >>In article <almCDBqDD.48E@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes: >> How about an announcement of upgrade script/utility/kit [whatever you call it] >>from 386bsd-0.1+pk-0.2.4 to FreeBSD, it one exsits ?I am pretty sure many of us > >Hmm, I thought Nate posted the availability. Snoop around on freebsd.cdrom.com, >and it should be out there, or send him mail, and ask him where it is, or >if he's up as late as I think he will be, he will probably see this message >and post where it is to save himself tons of email, which I know he hasn't >caught up on in a couple of days, because he thinks getting a job is more >important than reading email. Hmm, not I. It's only 12:10 a.m., not very late at all. (Though it was a busy day trying to pick and choose among all the rabid employers vying for me. NOT!) The reason they haven't went more public is that I've had very little feedback from the BETA testers (though what I've had has been good, and it has already improved the scripts.) That means that the thing holding back the upgrade script is those folks who already have the scripts who haven't told me anything at all, so PLEASE send me anything at all about what happened. As always, if you *really* want the scripts, most of the reports have been positive, and the non-positive ones have been due to my documentation not being up to snuff. The scripts work well (as far as I can tell), but my explanation of the setup sometimes needed a little more work. (Like you only need to do a binary OR source upgrade, not both, and some other little things which can bite the upgrade user) 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, called FreeBSD today :-)