From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 06:32:14 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA19615 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 06:32:14 -0700 Received: from haven.ios.com (haven.ios.com [198.4.75.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA19609 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 06:32:12 -0700 Received: (from rashid@localhost) by haven.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA16976; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:34:11 -0400 From: "Rashid Karimov." Message-Id: <199506121334.JAA16976@haven.ios.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.0 to 2.0.5 To: apearlst@emunix.emich.edu (Arona Pearlstein) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:34:10 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506120945.AA07404@emunix.emich.edu> from "Arona Pearlstein" at Jun 12, 95 05:45:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 605 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, > > Is there any way to upgrade right now from 2.0 to 2.0.5, short of a complete > reinstallation? I understand that a different partitioning scheme is used, > so a simple recompile of everything using new source will probably not work. Yes , it won't . At least that's what I was told by Jordan. New FS layout buried dreams about smooth upgrading :( level 0 dump ---> 2.0.5 install from the scratch --> restore The only thing which is kinda handy - the system will show you the old FS's sizes - so you don;t have to enter them by hand. Rashid > > apearlst@emunix.emich.edu >