From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 16:10:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saaz.cogit8.org (cogit8.org [207.189.137.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C7337B405 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@euglug.net) Received: from fuggles.lupophile.org (c1374372-a.eugene1.or.home.com [65.4.49.159]) by saaz.cogit8.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72NC0m05453 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@euglug.net) Received: by fuggles.lupophile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2556C07E; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:10:27 -0700 From: Rob Hudson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade Message-ID: <20010802161027.I20681@cogit8.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently did a 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade by booting from the 4.3 floppies and using /stand/sysinstall. After it finished and it rebooted, it had wiped out my /var directory. Is this normal procedure? If it's not normal, then I probably did something wrong along the way. This is where I keep my mysql database files. Luckily I had a backup. :) Also, I chose _not_ to upgrade ports at the same time to minimize downtime. What would be the best way to get the new ports now that I'm up and stable? Thanks, Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message