From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 7 15:18:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16834 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 15:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from os.dyn.ml.org (unused.wave.shaw.ca [24.64.128.58] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16805 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 15:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vampyro@os.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from vampyro@localhost) by os.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA01960 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 7 May 1998 18:18:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from vampyro) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8436.894566416@time.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 18:18:52 -0400 (EDT) From: iostreamH To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade comments Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 07-May-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> The UPGRADE.TXT file which came on the CD indicates that I would be >> prompted for a location "into which all files from /etc/ are saved." >> >> I don't recall seeing such a prompt. Previous copies of files >> such as /etc/passwd were simply overwritten. > > What?! Hmmm! That certainly didn't happen during my testing. Are > you sure you chose "upgrade" and didn't simply install on top of the > old system with a novice/express/custom install? :) > >> The file also mentions that the upgrade procedure "replaces the >> previous FreeBSD kernel with a GENERIC kernel." This was not the >> case. My 2.2.5 kernel was left as /kernel and the new 2.2.6 kernel >> was installed as /kernel.GENERIC. > > Hmmmm again. This would be another symptom of not acutally chosing > upgrade since only the upgrade option takes care to chflags the old > bits so that they can be overwritten this way. > > - Jordan I had a similar experiance but I didn't notice the passwd file problem...and yes...it was definatly the upgrade that was chosen. rob. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: iostreamH Date: 07-May-98 Time: 18:13:37 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message