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To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <k.#nojunk#keithley@opengroup.org>
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Subject: Re: 3.0-980311-SNAP "upgrade" post mortem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:23:40 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 01:01:29 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> saved fstab and my wd2s1 disk would be okay. As the upgrade proceeded it
> wouldn't mount the wd0s2x partitions (tried mounting them by hand in the
> emergency holographic shell and got the bad superblock error) and thus
> it couldn't backup my /etc before proceeding. (The install process gave

Hmmmm!  Extreme oddness.

> (BTW, What's the fdisk/disklabel utility that's on the boot floppy, and
> why can't the "real" fdisk and disklabel utilities be replaced with
> that?)

Tradition. :) You could always make little function aliases for
/stand/sysinstall's internal functions, of course, ala:

fdisk() {
	/stand/sysinstall diskPartitionEditor
}

disklabel {
	/stand/sysinstall diskLabelEditor
}

I suppose...

> I did qualify it as the 3.0-980311-SNAP. That was, and still is the only
> snap that's on ftp.cdrom.com/ftp.freebsd.org. Is there a newer snap
> somewhere else? What file or files should I get from -current to make

ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/

Always contains the very latest snaps for both 3.0 and 2.2 branches.

				      Jordan

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