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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:52:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> If I have dump's at level 0 - i.e. 'full' dumps of all the drives on my
> system, and a copy of the disklabels from all the drives - if I manage to
> _really_ screw the machine up while I'm attempting to upgrade it from 2.2.2 to
> 2.2.5 - Do I have everything I need to recover the machine? (I have access to
> 2.2.2 boot/fix disks etc.)

Think so.

It takes some pretty good screwing up to blow that upgrade though.  Some
gotcha's but no system-breakers.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major