Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 05:58:21 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>, "Gregory Bond" <gnb+fbs@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to start CTM with 2.2.6-RELEASE CD? Message-ID: <l03130300b19adbdddcd4@[208.2.87.10]> In-Reply-To: <199806030106.VAA26795@spooky.rwwa.com> References: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 20:51:59 CDT." <000901bd8dc9$0a83e1c0$c3e0d9cf@admin.westbend.net>
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At 8:06 PM -0500 6/2/98, Robert Withrow wrote: >hetzels@westbend.net said: >:- But, unfortunately you'll have to grab the src-2.2.0600xEmpty.gz plus >:- src-2.2.[0601-0743+].gz and apply all of them in order to bring your >:- system up to 2.2.6-STABLE. > >Yow. > >Is there no chance at recovery? Can't the release delta be generated >after the fact? Yes, someone with a lot of disk space and a good knowledge of the ctm generation process can generate a delta from any source to any target. However, there are a number of details that must be "just right" or the attempt will fail to fit in seamlessly. And in the CTM world, it's either seamless or it doesn't work. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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