Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 18:18:52 -0400 (EDT) From: iostreamH <fireman@shaw.wave.ca> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade comments Message-ID: <XFMail.980507181852.fireman@shaw.wave.ca> In-Reply-To: <8436.894566416@time.cdrom.com>
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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 <fireman@shaw.wave.ca> 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
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