From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 18:29:21 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 3A96214D54 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:29:18 -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 10V3b9-000Lse-0B; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:27:16 +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 CAA00754; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 02:26:47 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id CAA03700; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 02:23:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 02:23:56 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fresh install on an existing UFS - possible? Message-ID: <19990408022356.F2997@marder-1.localhost> References: <19990408010922.A2997@marder-1.localhost> <19990408103817.O2142@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990408103817.O2142@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 10:38:17AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 10:38:17AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. Good > > > 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. > A sign of age I guess > > 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 I'm not talking about upgrading, I mean a complete fresh install. If I make my new HD one single slice (with the existing FreeBSD system), mount it on /mnt, cp stuff I want to save, retaining the directory structure but putting it under say /mnt/old.system, when I do as fresh install using this single (whole disk) slice as /usr will I have, on the new system, /usr/old.system with all the files I copied under it? > 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 > -- 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