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From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Reinstalling user files
Date: 27 May 1997 06:58:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Jay Rothschild <jay@ais.net> wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 2.2.1 machine that I want to upgrade to 2.2.2 because of
> the Adaptec driver. I would like advice on the procedure to copy files to
> another machine and then back so that the new install will have all my
> /home user files, passwd files, and /var/mail files (Ya, I know the whole
Just use one machine. Be careful with the bin dist:
# cd /var/tmp
# cat bin.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - bin -C /
# cat bin.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - usr -C /
etc. Just don't extract /var and /etc over the exiting files.
# cat bin.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - etc
# diff -u /etc /var/tmp/etc |more
# vi ....
# reboot
to find the differences. At least this is what I did on a box I don't
have physical access to. The procedure nevers touches /home and other
valuable files.
--
-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)