From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 7 11:41:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06412 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:41:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06173 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08439; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Scott Sewall cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade comments In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 09:26:43 PDT." <3551E0C3.41C67EA6@iprg.nokia.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:40:16 -0700 Message-ID: <8436.894566416@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > The UPGRADE.TXT file which came on the CD indicates that I would be > prompted for a location "into which all files from /etc/ are saved." > > I don't recall seeing such a prompt. Previous copies of files > such as /etc/passwd were simply overwritten. What?! Hmmm! That certainly didn't happen during my testing. Are you sure you chose "upgrade" and didn't simply install on top of the old system with a novice/express/custom install? :) > The file also mentions that the upgrade procedure "replaces the > previous FreeBSD kernel with a GENERIC kernel." This was not the > case. My 2.2.5 kernel was left as /kernel and the new 2.2.6 kernel > was installed as /kernel.GENERIC. Hmmmm again. This would be another symptom of not acutally chosing upgrade since only the upgrade option takes care to chflags the old bits so that they can be overwritten this way. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message