From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 11 03:57:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA17537 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:57:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from friko.onet.pl (friko.onet.pl [194.204.188.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA17494 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:56:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from potok@friko.onet.pl) Received: from psycho.free.box (rap-cen160.opole.tpnet.pl [194.204.146.160]) by friko.onet.pl (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA31166; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:35:28 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9711110633.AA27372@epcot.spdc.ti.com.spdc.ti.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:46:32 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ovita Nutricia Poland From: Mariusz Potocki To: (George Vagner) Subject: RE: upgrade or format Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 11-Nov-97 George Vagner wrote: >I just received my 4 cdrom bundle of freebsd 2.2.5 from walnut creek >and was curious if I should do a upgrade or just format it all and start over? > >are there any advantages to eithier way? > If you just upgrade, be sure to have bunch of old files and libraries on the disk. They are no longer useable and hard to recognize to sweep out. > >-- > > >Laszlo G. Vagner >Texas Instruments >13570 N. Central expressway M/S 3703 >Dallas, Texas 75243 >(972)995-4297 >(972)598-5217 Pager >Email vagner@tee eye dot com http://web2.airmail.net/kf7nn Mariusz "verba volant, scripta manent"