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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.2R Installation Upgrade Problem
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Vincent Poy wrote:
> 
>         I attempted to upgrade an existing 2.1.7R system using the upgrade
> option on the Installation floppy and was unsuccessful.  It seems to asks
> for all the disk partition stuff...  Sometimes it has the correct
> partitions as they were already set, but then when you try to perform the
> upgrade, all it does is wipe out the disk and doesn't put any
> distributions back on...  Any ideas what I did wrong?  What I wanted to do
> was to upgrade after backing up the /etc directory.
> 
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You have to mount all your partitions just like they were before (with
the M option of the partition editor). Make sure that they are *not*
marked with a  NewFS flag of Y.

Nadav