From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 15:41:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA26839 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:41:01 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA26830 ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:40:57 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA08265; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:40:07 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509252240.PAA08265@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: "Installation" and "upgrade" To: chuckr@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Cc: richard@harlequin.co.uk, freebsd-install@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 25, 95 02:16:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 735 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > Keep up the good work. I wish I had time to pitch in. > > > > One good reason why you haven't found a method of upgrading from 2.0 to > another version, is because there isn't one. The filesystem changed > right after the release of 2.0, so upgrading to anything more recent > requires backup up your files, and doing a fresh reinstall. Believe me, > there's no way around it. > > The new install will reinstall your filesystems, with a newer variety, > based upon "slices". > this is a bit misleading. the new filsystems layed out in 2.0.5 are more optimal, but if you want to, you can just decline to newfs them and use the old partitions, and install new binaries onto them.. we can still read old partitions