From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 22 12:20:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA10963 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:20:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sponsor.octet.com (root@sponsor.octet.com [204.141.97.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10955 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cosmos@localhost) by sponsor.octet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA06044 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:08:47 GMT From: Daniel Leeds Message-Id: <199601221508.PAA06044@sponsor.octet.com> Subject: Is this ok?? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:08:46 +0000 () X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk my boss has this idea for upgrading a 2.0.5 system to a 2.1 one... id appreciate ALL replies saying "heck no you moron!" or "thats ok" and why asap. thanks. we have a 2.1 system running here. he wants to backup the / and /usr filesystems on the 2.0.5 system and then copy the / and /usr from the 2.1 system over to the 2.0.5 machine...thus a quick upgrade. we would of course edit the /etc files etc accordingly. im very very wary to do this and am sure its completely wrong...can anyone give me a clear reason why? or tell me its fine to do.. thanks -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Daniel Leeds Unix Admin Octet Media Beatnik -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-