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Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 13:03:48 -0700
From: Scott Sewall <scott@iprg.nokia.com>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade comments
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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
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