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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