Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 10:41:02 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: what's the upgrade procedure? Message-ID: <9512021841.AA16123@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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In Linux, the way I upgrade is install into a new partition a base system I run my sytem normally, mount the new partition in /tmp, and then install slackware into /tmp. How do I upgrade freebsd? I want to be able to run the old and the new system concurrently for a while... (I was running 2.1.0 snapshot 1105, I want to upgrade to the 2.1.0 release...) I also had problems with booteasy from the second hard disk (but the bios size is different from the real size -- the second disk is a 1.2gig, and the bios says about 400 Mbytes...[I have a compaq which has a sick, strange bios]). I also haven't tried any of the On-disk managers... In the first 300 Megabytes, I'm running win95 and NT with no problems, then I have a BSD disk slice of about 400 Mbyte, and linux in upper disk area (so dos fdisk is a bit screwed up...) I have a small partition on the first hard disk (about 80 Mbytes) which boot easy works with...my base system is on here, then my fstab has: : leisner@compaq;cat /etc/fstab /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s4e /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd1a /fs1 ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd1e /fs2 ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd1b none swap sw 0 0 and df says: : leisner@compaq;df -t ufs Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 19966 13380 4988 73% / /dev/wd0s4e 54082 36344 13410 73% /usr /dev/wd1a 50190 13188 32986 29% /fs1 /dev/wd1e 229486 202698 8428 96% /fs2 (I really don't understand the device syntax -- why is /usr on /dev/wd0s4e and the other disk has wd1a/wd1e in my slice? -- I got this working well from trial and error. Hints?? I can boot the second disk from the bootfloppy, but I had to enter wd(1,a)/kernel [can I build the boot loader to automatically do this? I'm content to run a floppy to boot from if I don't have to manually interact with it... Also, fbsdboot can deal with the second disk either... marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001
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