From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 17:14:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD9B15019 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10V2R3-000HjC-0B for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 00:12:46 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id BAA00528 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:12:16 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id BAA03356 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:09:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:09:23 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fresh install on an existing UFS - possible? Message-ID: <19990408010922.A2997@marder-1.localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can you install 3.1 (from the CDs) when one of the patitions already has a UFS and files on it? ISTR, back in the 2.2.x days that sysinstall *insisted* on doing a newfs on *all* the partitions you selected. For example, if the partition I want to use for /usr has an existing UFS and files on it will thoses files still be there after I install FreeBSD (assuming of course that they do not have the same filename as files that are installed, in which case they would be overwritten). -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message