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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!maui.cc.odu.edu!bosco101 From: sturgesj@bosco.cc.odu.edu (Jonathan Sturges) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 upgrade path from 2.0.5 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 14:37:44 GMT Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <45gkrp$mq6@maui.cc.odu.edu> References: <ckQ_zVG00YUw4iJ1ti@andrew.cmu.edu> <DFw9DA.F5@yedi.iaf.nl> <JKH.95Oct4204634@time.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bosco48101.cc.odu.edu X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article <JKH.95Oct4204634@time.cdrom.com>, jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) wrote: >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, so what is the current release status of 2.1? I was helping someone at my work setup a 2.0.5R machine as a WWW server, but we've been holding off since the release date of 2.1 says October at the Web site. However, if there's an actually upgrade capability, maybe we'll just go ahead and install 2.0.5, knowing that we won't lose everything when 2.1 is released. Also, I assume there will be continued binary compatibility in the whole 2.x family? I guess that goes w/o saying, but I just wanted to be sure before I commit to 2.0.5 on this server. thanks!! Jonathan jonathan@cc.odu.edu