From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 17 5:15:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A29237B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 05:15:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to (pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to [213.130.163.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB5B43E4A for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 05:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shamrock@cypherpunks.to) Received: from VAIO650 (unknown [208.201.229.160]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED303647A for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:14:57 +0100 (CET) From: "Lucky Green" To: Subject: 5.0 upgrade via dump/restore how-to? Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 05:14:35 -0800 Message-ID: <000301c2a5ce$40774700$6401a8c0@VAIO650> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A few folks have asked me if I knew if there is an how-to that could be used as a basis for upgrading a STABLE box to 5.0 using not the procedures in UPGRADING, but rather performing a clean 5.0 install on a fresh disk followed by restoring whatever is required to make the new install look like the old machine. (I.e., /home, password files, ssh keys, etc). Is anybody here aware of such a document? Thanks, --Lucky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message