From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 15:39:14 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3AB42D7C for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kukulies.org (mail.kukulies.org [78.47.239.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED04477A for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kukulies.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA3A4DA400 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:29:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kukulies.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (exapt.kukulies.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uzMRgnz4rhCE for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:29:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.27.4.215] (unknown [87.79.34.228]) by kukulies.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BA7F4DA3F5 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:29:29 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <543FE453.9010801@kukulies.org> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:29:23 +0200 From: "Christoph P.U. Kukulies" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Installing 10.0 over an 8.0 from memorystick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:39:14 -0000 Quite a while ago I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on a (66GB) partition of my Dell notebook. It served its purpose but recently I wanted to use it to dump some stuff to a SD card and I found that 8.0 didn't detect the SD card (mmc ?). Anyway, I thaought it could be time for an upgrade anyway and now I'm a bit hesitant to install FreeBSD 10.0 right from the USB-stick (which I booted). The installer found ad0 as the disk to install and when I watched the disk layout it showed ad0s3 as a BSD partition with ad0s3a as root and ad0s3b as swap IIRC. What would happen, if I commit the install? Can I do better an upgrade? I would like to preserve my WLAN, IP and other settings. Any advice here? Thanks. -- Christoph