From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 9 11:26:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA28785 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 11:26:27 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA28779 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 11:26:26 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA26219; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 11:25:58 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504091825.LAA26219@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: 2.1 install "upgrade" question? To: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 11:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504091704.KAA09681@ix4.ix.netcom.com> from "Paul Vinciguerra" at Apr 9, 95 10:04:24 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 818 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is the 2.1 installation going to have an option to "upgrade" from 2.0R > (the CD)? Since the 2.0 install assumed no investment in Freebsd (it > just layed down the image and didn't care how much time you spent > setting up 1.x). If you want this to be really user friendly, we need > an option to lay down only the "delta". All serious packages offer > "upgrade from 1.x" > "upgrade from 2.0R" > "new installation" > > If this can't be done in time, I suggest an easy to find doc to walk a > current FreeBSD'er through doing an "upgrade" This is such an sensible thing to suggest. Any idea where we find the time to do it ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'