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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:51:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
Cc: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>,
	Eric Colburn <ecolburn@seeitfirst.com>,
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Subject: Re: 4.3 FreeBSD
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 05:12:28 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
> Cc: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" <root@pukruppa.de>,
>      Eric Colburn <ecolburn@seeitfirst.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: 4.3 FreeBSD
>
> At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 it looks like Doug Young composed:
>
> dougy->I know a heap of experts will disagree, but by far the best uptimes
> dougy->I've achieved with FreeBSD have been with an install of some RELEASE
> dougy->version from CD, & leaving the thing untouched til the next RELEASE.
>
> <humbly_snipped>
>
> I wanted to clarify whether you "re-install" with the new release on
> CD or "up-grade" with the new release on CD.
Upgrading will leave your configuration-files and your applications
untouched, reinstalling would destroy your configs and leave your apps
alive.
Only when you really format or change your partitions-layout everything
will be redone.

>
> If you "upgrade" what packages do you "choose" to install from the
> newer CD to the older release ?
>
>
> --
> Bill Schoolcraft
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