From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 30 02:18:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0F416A41A for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:18:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dominor@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD0B13C45A for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:18:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dominor@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so2714559pye for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:18:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=bWpeC2u8+QKF3X9W4m+YskfK1QzhKQPuyoO4YQqKEmXbCzW0qzc+7l1EkxvKVshvx4oselQf1Mcu/0RwUuBl95xR+Rj1RcIFtUXaLM3nAMOHroiyOrgsuA6LwarRolYyzRuz1AsYEqo+jgFQycBG5oH7l2mktrRvOYO1mk6ylco= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=bw5qGN4Kk0sARmqIcNQVOUCIG/D5TK5Q1qNhXawOPcvH3m1rTR8eCRzTed+vMT3Cb3zuzXUA1Mjz2Q/RnGvspb6wnZIo2zl4qadZOfVAanGPBfo4CXl6uFiylLmipsr3aoLGxU+1x7+gg/Wr+Kmdt9wwYGK3r/PWbr6L8Sa0smI= Received: by 10.35.103.6 with SMTP id f6mr17313937pym.1185761898504; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.67.17 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <105fa37b0707291918j11cf3964x30e2e34d2bc66d13@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:18:18 -0400 From: "Hakan K" To: "Ross Penner" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: User questions Subject: Re: Downgrading from current X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:18:21 -0000 How about creating a new partition and using new partition for installation.? I do not think you will be able to keep the files, if u install on same partition... Thanks Troy http://dominor.net On 7/29/07, Ross Penner wrote: > > I recently upgraded my system from stable to current to try and take > advantage of some of wireless features offered. Unfortunetly, things > didn't work out as well as I'd like to and I want to downgrade. > > Reading online, it seems that downgrading isn't supported and it's > probably best to just reinstall the system. This seems reasonable enough > to me but I have a couple problems I need to address first. > > I have a lot of data on my /usr partition that I would rather not have to > backup and then readd to the system. is there a way I can reinstall and > leave parts of the file system intact? I assume that I can use the same > partitions but I'm worried that reinstalling will clean the partitions. > > -- > sig ho! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >