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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 00:26:50 -0700
From:      nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, root@Shockwave.COM, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks
Message-ID:  <199503290726.AAA13507@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199503290712.RAA20923@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199503290712.RAA20923@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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> >  Agreed again.  We're going to need to deal with this somehow, or users
> >  are going to SCREECH.  Bruce is safe over there in OZ, but I know that
> >  folks like Poul and I are going to get hundreds of mails in our boxes! :-(
> 
> Disagreed.  Aren't you going to tell everyone to reinstall like you did with
> all previous releases?  The new sysinstall won't make any invalid slices
> or partitions ;-).

The upgrade from 1.0 -> 1.1 didn't require a re-install. ;)

(And neither did the upgrade from 386BSD -> FreeBSD.  I wrote the
upgrade script for that)



Nate



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