From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 4 18:19:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04129 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04115 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:19:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA17373; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:48:48 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980705104847.P358@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:48:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: robert@chalmers.com.au, Thomas Dean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0. Does it require a completly new install? References: <199807041446.HAA00455@ix.netcom.com> <359EB720.69F724CF@chalmers.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <359EB720.69F724CF@chalmers.com.au>; from Robert Chalmers on Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 09:13:36AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 5 July 1998 at 9:13:36 +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: > Thomas Dean wrote: >> >> The answer to reluctance is BACKUP! >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > yes, I know all about backing up, but I am reluctant to spend the next week > getting everything working again. Up to about 2.2.6, upgrading was a fairly > simple matter, but since then, there have been some pretty major changes... > > Personally, I suspect my best option is to build a completly new system from > scratch, hardware and all. A new disk will do it. Move your old disk to a different position, and completely install on the new disk, not telling it about the old disk. Then you can merge the stuff you want to keep after the system is up and running. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message