Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:24:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Cc: Richard Balue <balue@olympus.apolloi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing . . . Message-ID: <19980105122456.50515@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34AF026D.32FA2717@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>; from Ruslan Shevchenko on Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 03:30:53AM %2B0000 References: <199801041700.RAA00954@olympus.apolloi.com> <34AF026D.32FA2717@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 03:30:53AM +0000, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > Richard Balue wrote: > >> HI, >> I am not clear about one thing in term of upgrading or >> installing an newer version. Is it possible to keep all >> current information on the drive in an upgrade? Or is >> upgrading going to repartition the drives (basically reformatting)? >> >> I have version 2.1.x and need to upgrade to 3.0 snapshot, what >> is the best way to get there? > > unfortunally, disk formatting is differ in 2.1 and 3.0 > > so, you must backup all, install 3.0 and restore you apps. Am I missing something here? I'm CURRENTly running 3.0-CURRENT, and I haven't reformatted since 2.0.5. In fact, running -CURRENT, I didn't even notice when we upgraded from 2.2-CURRENT to 3.0-CURRENT. Greg
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