Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 15:17:29 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2R Installation Upgrade Problem Message-ID: <33C22FD9.5DBF@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970708042052.239A-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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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. > > Cheers, > Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] > GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] > Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] 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
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