From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 22:37:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA10598 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 22:37:16 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA10473 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 22:37:01 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01088; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:35:27 +0800 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:35:26 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Paul Vinciguerra cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5 install - non-destructive In-Reply-To: <199506130002.RAA05455@ix7.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jun 1995, Paul Vinciguerra wrote: > > pull in the sources, > recompile, > Backup to tape, > make fs changes, > Restore from tape. > > Will this work, or do the filesystem changes preclude this? That'll work, as long as you do a file dump and not a raw disk block dump. Before I upgraded, I moved my /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local filesystems to the NFS server and reformatted all the FreeBSD drives. It's a good idea to keep your local changes to one or two filesystems (thus /usr/local or /usr/contrib) so doing major OS upgrades is relatively painless. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org