From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 04:36:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA09401 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 04:36:01 -0700 Received: from holly.cam.harlequin.co.uk (holly.cam.harlequin.co.uk [193.128.4.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA09376 ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 04:35:54 -0700 Received: from rocannon.cam.harlequin.co.uk by holly.cam.harlequin.co.uk; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:35:51 +0100 Received: from [192.88.238.248] (dynamic-mac4.cam.harlequin.co.uk) by rocannon.cam.harlequin.co.uk; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:35:48 +0100 X-Sender: richard@mailhost.cam.harlequin.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:35:50 +0100 To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: richard@harlequin.co.uk (Richard Brooksby) Subject: "Installation" and "upgrade" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk This is both a question and a suggestion. FreeBSD has a reasonable installation procedure, and the documentation talks a lot about "intalling" FreeBSD. What about upgrading? I have FreeBSD 2.0 installed, and am interested in updating to 2.1 when it is stable and comes out on CD-ROM. Can I use the same convenient installation procedure to _upgrade_? Will the install 2.1 procedure overwrite all my careful configuration in /etc or will it Do The Right Thing? If the install procedure _does_ upgrade correctly, then I suggest the procedure is documented, along with any pitfalls. If the install procedure can't upgrade, I suggest that it be changed to do so, or some documentation is provided on how to do this. I'm pretty sure you have thought of this already -- there must be a lot of people with 2.0 who want to upgrade. I'm impressed by the thoughtfulness and stability of FreeBSD, which is why I use it. Keep up the good work. I wish I had time to pitch in. --- Richard Brooksby Manager & Developer / Memory Management / Symbolic Processing / Harlequin +44 1223 873881 (voice) +44 1223 872519 (fax)