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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!reason.cdrom.com!news.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 upgrade path from 2.0.5 Date: 05 Oct 1995 03:46:33 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <JKH.95Oct4204634@time.cdrom.com> References: <ckQ_zVG00YUw4iJ1ti@andrew.cmu.edu> <DFw9DA.F5@yedi.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com In-reply-to: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl's message of Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:34:22 GMT Actually, I am putting an "Upgrade" option in the 2.1 install. I finally got sick enough of the problem to do something about it personally. It should be out in the snapshot-after-next for testing. I'm willing to entertain suggestions about what kinds of things those of you contemplating an upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.1 would like to see - it's not too late! I've only just started the implementation phase. So far, it will basically mount up all your former partitions, copy your /etc someplace, extract the selected dists over the top and then resurrect old /etc into new as best possible using some very simple heuristics for deciding when to copy old back over new. Finally, it dumps you into a shell on the new system and lets you poke around and/or adjust stuff as you see fit before rebooting. That's all it does, that's the "upgrade." Anyone feeling strongly that it should be more is definitely encouraged to contact me ASAP. Jordan -- Jordan