From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 16 00:54:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA28591 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:54:01 -0700 Received: from lirmm.lirmm.fr (lirmm.lirmm.fr [193.49.104.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA28585 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:53:59 -0700 Received: from lirmm.fr (baobab.lirmm.fr [193.49.106.14]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id JAA18370 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 09:52:25 +0200 Message-Id: <199506160752.JAA18370@lirmm.lirmm.fr> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SNAP-041295 -> 2.05 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 09:52:22 +0200 From: "Christophe Fiorio, LIRMM 67-41-85-78" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, A friend of mine (hello Philippe), says that to upgrade my system I must format all my FreeBSD disk and install all from the beginning. This in order to use the new slice scheme. I can't believe that! Is there no way to upgrade my system without losing all my data? Is this new slice scheme necessary? Is there a dirty trick to avoid formating the disk? (e.g. doing only a sort of disklabel.). It seems that the bounds of the partitions are counted from the beginning of the slice and no more from the beginning of the disk. Some precisions: I have a 486 DX/2 66 with PCI bus and FreeBSD is installed on my second hard disk (a 520 Mb). Christophe. \\|// @ o o @ +-----oOO--( )--OOo------+-------------------------------------------+ | | Bill Gates should limit his salary to the | | Christophe Fiorio | number of bytes addressable by the latest | | | version of MS-DOS, and be taxed based on | | email: fiorio@lirmm.fr | the number of bytes of RAM needed by the | | | latest version of MS-Windows. | +------------------------+---------------oOO--( )--OOo---------------+ (o ^) //|\\