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To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>,
	JOSE D HERNANDEZ-TORRES <jhernandez@ssb.state.tx.us>
Subject: Re: I need information
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On Monday 17 March 2003 08:44 am, Bill Moran wrote:
> JOSE D HERNANDEZ-TORRES wrote:
> > I am migrating users from a Free BSD system 4.2 in to a 4.7 release. I
> > already tried the documentation that is in the free BDS questions site,
> > however I have not being able to do it. Any help will be appreciated.
> > Thank you.
>
> We'll need a little more information before we can help you.

for example what do you mean by "migrating users" are you just upgrading the 
box you are using, or are you moving users over to a new box running 4.7?

and then of course Bill's other good points here:

> 1) What steps are you taking?
> 2) Exactly at what point is it failing?
> 3) What are the exact error messages you are getting?
>
> Make sure you back up the server before doing anything.  While the process
> is very safe, it can be a little confusing if you've never done it
> before, and data loss can result.

Tim

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