From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 09:21:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA20306 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:21:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from argon.linkzone.com (argon.linkzone.com [204.182.59.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA20296 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlt@linkzone.com) Received: from localhost (mlt@localhost) by argon.linkzone.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA14536; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:19:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:19:23 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Turrin To: Brian Clapper cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing . . . In-Reply-To: <199801051340.IAA12692@current.willscreek.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Brian, Thanks for the reference. 3.2 Upgrading from earlier releases of FreeBSD. Yes I have reviewed this but it falls short of describing what to do after: 5. Drop user in a shell so that they may perform that merge before rebooting into the new system. What merge is necessary at this point? Is there a command that is run from this mini shell that does it or do you need to manually update certain files? Which ones? The documentation is good up to this point but I think there needs to be a check list of what to do from here while in the single-user-mode shell. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks, ___________________________________________________________________ Mark L. Turrin Save the whales...collect the whole set. mlt@linkzone.com On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Brian Clapper wrote: > On 4 January, 1998, at 19:58 (-0800) > Mark Turrin wrote: > > > Is there a FAQ somwhere that walks you through the upgrade process. I > > tried to do it but ended up just reformatting and starting fresh. > > I don't know about a FAQ, but I assume you've read through the section on > upgrading in INSTALL.TXT ... ? It's not lengthy, I'll admit, but it does > give some context. > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-971225-SNAP/INSTALL.TXT > ----- > Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ > Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift. >