From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 16 01:58:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA23305 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 01:58:31 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA23291 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 01:58:24 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA26987; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 10:58:17 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA11157; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 10:58:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA15934; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 09:57:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504160757.JAA15934@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: installing a new snap To: terryl@CS.Stanford.EDU (Terry Lee) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 09:57:21 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Terry Lee" at Apr 15, 95 04:32:42 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 417 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lee wrote: > > I'm worried that if there are any changes in the standard /etc, I won't > be getting them. After the install: mv /etc /etc.bak tar -xvf /dev/rfd0 /* re-install old /etc */ diff -r /etc /etc.bak Look if you're missing something important. :-/ -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)