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To: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com>
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Subject: Re: Smooth upgrade to 2.0.5 from latest SNAP - HOW ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 95 10:34:37 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:06:07 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> 	Will the ususal scheme with untarring bin/kernel src/recompiling
> 	play as it used to be ? 

Erm..  No. :-(

> 	Are there any significant changes in the FS formats ( I've heard
> 	about table of bad blocks - is this new ? Will the old FS work
> 	in this case ? )...

It will work, but you will get warnings spewed at you every time you
boot up.  We went to a new "Slices" paradigm (where's that slice.doc,
Poul & Bruce?? :-) which has made laying down your partitions again
a pretty good idea!

> 	I have already 2 FreeBSD servers with total of 4.000 accounts , 
> 	so that's really important for me ( anyways, the systems have
> 	1-2G primary HDD with the system itself, and 4G secondary with
> 	user partitions , so probably I'll be able to get new 1G SCSI , 
> 	install the system and all apps on it and just swap the disks,
> 	so the downtime will be some 5 minutes ).

Backups! :-)

						Jordan