From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 19:26:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA18801 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:26:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA18755 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:26:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01488; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:17:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Turrin cc: Brian Clapper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing . . . In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Mark Turrin wrote: > Hello Brian, > > Thanks for the reference. > > 3.2 Upgrading from earlier releases of FreeBSD. > > Yes I have reviewed this but it falls short of describing what to do > after: > > 5. Drop user in a shell so that they may perform that merge before > rebooting into the new system. > > > What merge is necessary at this point? Is there a command that is run > from this mini shell that does it or do you need to manually update > certain files? Which ones? > > The documentation is good up to this point but I think there needs to be a > check list of what to do from here while in the single-user-mode shell. At that point you will need to massage /etc/ files as suitable for your system. Notably, you may need to rewrite rc.conf and bring over any changes from /etc/upgrade. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major