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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:59:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.05A
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On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Julian Elischer wrote:

>  you can just get te sources and recompile..
> I did it.. works fine..
> you might recompile a few of the utilities (e,g, install)
> first to make sure, but a make world
> should do fine..
> 
> the config files have changed, so back up /etc/and cd to /usr/src/etc
> and do {something} to install the new configuration stuff.

	Hmmm, I thought the install did some disk optimization as well as
other things and also the slice code has changed since 2.0R and 2.0.5A.

Cheers,
-Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95
SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free!

> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > 	I am going to be upgrading from 2.0 -current as of 2 weeks ago to 
> > 2.05A, can I just install the 2.05A source and do a make world or do I 
> > have to do a reinstall?  I don't have a tape backup but is it possible to 
> > back up to floppies instead if it is really required?  Any help would be 
> > appreciated.  Thanks.