Date: 29 Apr 2003 10:48:55 -0500 From: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> To: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: URGENT HELP REQUIRED Message-ID: <1051631334.14547.11.camel@owen1492.uf.corelab.com> In-Reply-To: <A2DF56E8BC9B964884DD1A7C9C812C0F01301430@mail.intrasoft.lu> References: <A2DF56E8BC9B964884DD1A7C9C812C0F01301430@mail.intrasoft.lu>
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On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 09:52, CARTER Anthony wrote: > To everyone: > > I am downloading latest ISOs and will re-install but without removing my > current installation (just overwrite). > > Anyone got any "gotchas" that I should know about or watch out for? Main one I can think of, is if it's possible you should back up /etc/master.passwd and /etc/groups. I think these get clobbered on an install and rebuilding them from scratch can range from being somewhat annoying (only one user) to being a major pain (many users and groups). Craig
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