Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 12:28:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950625122503.4777B-100000@miles> In-Reply-To: <199506250621.AAA02309@rover.village.org>
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But in the current case of 2.0.5, possibly the biggest gotcha is the new
disk partitioning / slicing. Upgrading (which I would love to see)
requires that the underlying disk structure and partion sizes are correct
and large enough to hold the new upgrade.
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On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, Warner Losh wrote:
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> Then you get into the thornier issues: /etc/rc* and /etc/netstart.
> From time to time, things need to be added to these file, and you want
> to preserve, as much as possible, the configuration that has been
> made here.
>
> To sum up some very rough ideas:
> 1) You need to replace some binaries
> 2) You need to patch some files
> 3) You need to convert other files
>
> This doesn't address the "dual boot" issue. In that case, you'd want
> to be able to say "Install the system onto that other device, and use
> my current system as a template." It also doesn't address the "ooop,
> that was stupid, I want to go back now." either.
>
> Warner
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