Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 13:03:48 -0700 From: Scott Sewall <scott@iprg.nokia.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade comments Message-ID: <355213A4.2781E494@iprg.nokia.com> References: <8436.894566416@time.cdrom.com>
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Looks like I selected install instead of upgrade. Sorry to be a bother. -- Scott Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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