From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 15 3:15: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (Thingol.KryptoKom.DE [194.245.91.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F19C14FE1 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eT@post.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA31393 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:09:07 +0200 Received: from cirdan.kryptokom.de by KryptoWall via smtpp (Version 1.2.0) id kwa31391; Fri Oct 15 14:08:58 1999 Received: from post.com ([192.168.6.40]) by cirdan.kryptokom.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02602 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:20:13 +0200 Message-ID: <3806FFBA.3CEA5755@post.com> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:19:39 +0200 From: eT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading a different way Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an installed FreeBSD-2.2.x Release on a Hard disk. Is it possible to upgrade to FreeBSD 3.2 by just copying the distribution files over the existing 2.2.x filesystem? How would the booting issues be overcome: 1. the booting? there is a new booting sequence and it seems like new boot blocks will have to be written to master boot record? eT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message