Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:38:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fresh install on an existing UFS - possible? Message-ID: <19990408103817.O2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990408010922.A2997@marder-1.localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:09:23AM %2B0100 References: <19990408010922.A2997@marder-1.localhost>
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On Thursday, 8 April 1999 at 1:09:23 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Can you install 3.1 (from the CDs) when one of the patitions already > has a UFS and files on it? Yes. > ISTR, back in the 2.2.x days that sysinstall *insisted* on doing a > newfs on *all* the partitions you selected. Your memory is letting you down. > 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). In general, yes. In fact, you may find old corpses of forgotten programs left behind as well. /etc is a special case if you choose the upgrade installation: it gets moved out of the way, a new one is installed, and you later have a choice of merging the old files. It's messy at best: particularly the startup files have changed a lot, and they're still changing. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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