From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 3 12:57:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA18999 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 12:57:53 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA18989 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 12:57:51 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA16119; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 12:57:26 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506031957.MAA16119@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.05A To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 12:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.Org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Jun 3, 95 03:28:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1233 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.Org Precedence: bulk > > On Sat, 3 Jun 1995, Rashid Karimov. wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > > > > On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > > > Vince said he was under -current, not 2.0R ! If you're -current, upgrading > > > > > to 2.0.5A is a matter of recompilation or did I miss something ? > > > > > > > > > > So does this mean that I need to do a full reinstall? Also, > > > since i don't have a backup, I guess I'll make a tarball but does anyone > > > know how to put the tar file on floppies and how to format floppies under > > > FreeBSD? > > > > If you buy preformatted floppies , you shouldn't format them. > > They are FreeBSD ready :) Just noticed this piece of the thread and though I would through in the fact that ``preformatted'' does not mean defect free. Infact often preformatted DOS floppies full of defects since DOS format cleans them up for the mfg. By all means, preformatted floppies are NOT FreeBSD ready!!!! One of the common failure modes of installation we have has been tracked down to bad floppy disk god only knows how many times!!! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD