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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:17:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mark Turrin <mlt@linkzone.com>
Cc:        Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing . . .
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105191650.1402G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105091231.9793S-100000@argon.linkzone.com>

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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





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