From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 10 13:36:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00730 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexus.winternet.com (ihc@nexus.winternet.com [204.246.64.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00725 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ihc@localhost) by nexus.winternet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA27901 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:42:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: nexus.winternet.com: ihc owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:42:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Ing To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: old question of upgrades Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm sure this is an old question that y'all have heard many times, but i didn't find an answer to the old question of "how do i upgrade without wiping my old files" in the mail archives. If someone could mail me these instructions, it would be much appreciated. I'd like to upgrade from 2.2.1-RELEASE to 2.2.2-RELEASE without losing /etc, /var, and /usr. Thanks --IngHaw PS. please include me in the cc, i'm not subscribed. ----------------------------------------+---------------------------------- IngHaw Cheng | ihc@winternet.com (email) | FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE nexus.winternet.com (http, ftp, telnet) | www.freebsd.org n11, inghaw@EFNet (IRC) | 612-473-6899 (voice) | ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------