From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 17 2: 2: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99F614FBB for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 02:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-100.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.100] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id EAA27166; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 04:01:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <38099051.531643F5@airnet.net> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 04:01:05 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eT Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading a different way References: <3806FFBA.3CEA5755@post.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG eT wrote: > > I have an installed FreeBSD-2.2.x Release on a Hard disk. Is it > possible to upgrade to FreeBSD 3.2 by just copying the distribution > files over the existing 2.2.x filesystem? How would the booting issues > be overcome: > > 1. the booting? there is a new booting sequence and it seems like new > boot blocks will have to be written to master boot record? For lack of any other response, I'd recommend backing the machine up and installing fresh. You can then change the relevant options. (This assuming you weren't running "heavily-modified".) -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message