Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 15:28:58 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.05A Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950603152449.31379Y-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506031329.JAA06863@haven.ios.com>
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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 :) I know but my floppies are unformatted. :) > Anyways , can hardly imagine the procedure of backing the system > on floppies ... It's better to go and buy some 300-500 Mb IDE/SCSI > either for the backup or fresh install I know so what I'm thinking is backing up just /etc, /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local into a tar file and copy it to my other dos formatted hard drive but I don't know the procedure of mounting a dos drive that is not the same physical drive as FreeBSD is on. Maybe someone can help me on this one? Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!
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