From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 18:10:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A23214D80 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA17157; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:38:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA19771; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:38:17 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990408103817.O2142@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:38:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fresh install on an existing UFS - possible? References: <19990408010922.A2997@marder-1.localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990408010922.A2997@marder-1.localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:09:23AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 8 April 1999 at 1:09:23 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Can you install 3.1 (from the CDs) when one of the patitions already > has a UFS and files on it? Yes. > ISTR, back in the 2.2.x days that sysinstall *insisted* on doing a > newfs on *all* the partitions you selected. Your memory is letting you down. > For example, if the partition I want to use for /usr has an existing > UFS and files on it will thoses files still be there after I install > FreeBSD (assuming of course that they do not have the same filename > as files that are installed, in which case they would be > overwritten). In general, yes. In fact, you may find old corpses of forgotten programs left behind as well. /etc is a special case if you choose the upgrade installation: it gets moved out of the way, a new one is installed, and you later have a choice of merging the old files. It's messy at best: particularly the startup files have changed a lot, and they're still changing. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message