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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!fonorola!uniserve1!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Migrating to new release of FreeBSD Date: 10 Jun 1995 03:11:46 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3rb2hj$g5@enigma.uniserve.com> References: <3r42c6$ia6@bubbla.uri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 In article <3r42c6$ia6@bubbla.uri.edu>, impaler@vampyre.acc.uri.edu says... >Three questions: >1) Which release would people recommend? 2.0.5R >2) How well does FreeBSD run on a Nice little Pentium 90 with PCI bus? I'm not familar with "Nice little Pentium (tm)". >3) Is there an easy way to move the /etc/master.passwd file to the new >system. That is the biggest problem. This machine is used as an >authentication server for a good number of project dialup users. I need >to be able to keep their passwords intact after the upgrade. Any >suggestions? Did you install securedist on your 1.1.5.1 machine? If so, your in luck, just install 2.0.5R, and install securedist as well, and all will be fine with /etc/master.passwd Tom