Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 19:18:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Tony Harverson <tony2@hornet.netac.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.1R to 2.2SNAP - /stand ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960514191709.7911D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605142022.WAA01818@hornet.netac.co.za>
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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Tony Harverson wrote: > I have just successfully completed a remote upgrade of a 2.1R box to a SNAP-960501 > box by unpacking the Binary Distribution and the manual and Documentation distribs > onto the box and removing and then replacing the old directories. The notable > absence in the new distrib, however, was the /stand directory. Is this just a result > of having done the upgrade in an unusual manner, or has the /stand directory been > removed from 2.2 ? It was because of the goofy way you upgraded. Stand is a wierd bird in itself -- it's a giant linked binary. Try doing 'ls -l' in it sometime. Odd that most of the files are 802816 bytes and the others are 456940 bytes. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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