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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: upgrade to 2.2
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:17:41 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Mr Simon Lee <silee@news.hk.super.net>

Mr Simon Lee wrote:
>   I know that the 2.2 release can mount Linux's ext2fs file system,
>   and want to have a try.
> 
>   My question is what I need to download ? Are *sys* in src dir enough ?

No, you'll need the entire system.  Far better to simply install a 2.2
snapshot from scratch.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project