From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 22 12:43:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA12405 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:43:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA22808; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:46:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:46:10 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601222046.NAA22808@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Daniel Leeds Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this ok?? In-Reply-To: <199601221508.PAA06044@sponsor.octet.com> References: <199601221508.PAA06044@sponsor.octet.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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? As long as you make a backup copy of the /etc files on the local machines for reference, this should be an okay thing to do. However, if it were me I'd do it in single-user mode. (Which means you'd have to bring it up to multi-user mode to get the network stuff, and then back down to single user mode). That's how I do most of my upgrades. Nate