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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ingr.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sgigate.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem with upgrading from 2.0.5 to 2.1 Date: 4 Jun 1996 21:26:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4p29lh$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jingl.833827835@sait109> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jingl@sait109.morgan.com (Jing F. Luk) wrote: > May someone point out if this is feasible? I have a 2.0.5 CD-ROM > and an IDE CD-ROM drive. My question is if it is possible to > download the 2.1 boot.flp(since it supports IDE CD-ROM) and > install/upgrade 2.1 using 2.1 boot.flp and 2.0.5 CD. I tried this > combination. The installation went fine and the system detected the > CD-ROM drive without any problem. But the system could not recognize > the drive after I rebooted it. Of course. Think about it. The installation floppy is only for installation; it uses a special kernel with a builtin root file system. If you install from a 2.0.5 CD, you will finally install the kernel that's located there -- and pick this one on reboot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)