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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
To: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5
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> Hi people,
>
> So to make softupdates work, the partition should be reformatted under
> 4.5, which means that after an upgrade from an earlier FreeBSD version
> (without disk reformatting) the soft updates will not work, is it true?

That is not true... you have to boot the system from a floppy and then do
a 'tunefs -n enable' on the /dev entry for that partition.

Ken


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