From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 20:44:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6286D37B54E for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (idxwc07-20.idx.com.au [203.166.2.20]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA05146; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:42:27 +1100 From: Danny To: J McKitrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 -> 3.4 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:43:47 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000318033458.B25228@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031915454602.00895@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Ideally, assuming your FreeBSD is wired to a LAN in the office or at home you can "ftp" the contents of your home directory and anything important to another box . Then reinstall FreeBSD 3.4 - which becomes a 30 minute to 45 minute job On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, J McKitrick wrote: > Yes, you read that right, 4.0 to 3.4. Is there a safe way to go back > to 3.4 without reformatting? I would like to keep my home directory > and installed ports, if possible. > > I was thinking of making install floppies from my 3.2 cdrom, > installing 3.2 binaries only, and then rebuilding world from the 3.4 > source tree. Would this work? > > jm > -- > -------------------------------------------- > Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org > "Doors to the pleasures of heaven or hell, > and i didn't care which." > -------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message