Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:33:10 -0800 From: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downgrade FreeBSD 5.1 or 5.2 -> 4.9 Message-ID: <20040122193310.GA2758@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <p0602048abc35b43cbdb2@[128.113.24.47]> References: <9FCD15C952BD734DB8377A36E5032EF2F51189@de-raub-mail1.hygiene.sca.se> <p0602048abc35b43cbdb2@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:19:06PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > ... You will have much less trouble if you just resign yourself to > backing-up the data you need to some safe place, and do a fresh > install (ie, reformat the drives using the 4.9 installation discs, > and install everything from scratch). Will 4.x and 5.x play nice if they have a partition (slice?) in common? For example, /home that was mounted by both a 4.x and 5.x depending on whatever was booted at the moment. Probably have UFS issues, but I don't know if 5.x will "corrupt" a 4.x filesystem. I downgraded via reinstall once, but set up two partitions so I could work on either one if I wanted to. I haven't tried mix-n-match though.
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