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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:24:56 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
Cc: Richard Balue <balue@olympus.apolloi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Installing . . .
References: <199801041700.RAA00954@olympus.apolloi.com> <34AF026D.32FA2717@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 03:30:53AM +0000, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote:
> Richard Balue wrote:
>
>> HI,
>> I am not clear about one thing in term of upgrading or
>> installing an newer version.  Is it possible to keep all
>> current information on the drive in an upgrade?  Or is
>> upgrading going to repartition the drives (basically reformatting)?
>>
>> I have version 2.1.x and need to upgrade to 3.0 snapshot, what
>> is the best way to get there?
>
> unfortunally, disk formatting is differ in 2.1 and 3.0
>
> so, you must backup all, install 3.0 and restore you apps.

Am I missing something here?  I'm CURRENTly running 3.0-CURRENT, and I
haven't reformatted since 2.0.5.  In fact, running -CURRENT, I didn't
even notice when we upgraded from 2.2-CURRENT to 3.0-CURRENT.

Greg