1997-03-11 09:29:42 +00:00
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Welcome to the 2.1.x (or 2.0.5) -> 2.1.7 upgrade procedure!
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1995-10-19 16:15:43 +00:00
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It must first be said that this upgrade DOES NOT take a particularly
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1996-11-13 12:35:17 +00:00
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sophisticated approach to the upgrade problem, it being more a
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question of providing what seemed "good enough" at the time. A truly
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polished upgrade that deals properly with the broad spectrum of
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1997-03-11 09:29:42 +00:00
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installed 2.0.5 / 2.1.x systems would be nice to have, but until that
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gets written what you get is this - the brute-force approach!
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1995-10-19 16:15:43 +00:00
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What this upgrade will attempt to do is best summarized thusly:
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1. fsck and mount all file systems chosen in the label editor.
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2. Ask for a location to preserve your /etc directory into and do so.
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3. Extract all selected distributions on top of your existing system.
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4. Copy certain obvious files back from the preserved /etc, leaving the
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rest of the /etc file merge up to the user.
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5. Drop user in a shell so that they may perform that merge before
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rebooting into the new system.
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And that's it! This "upgrade" is not going to hold your hand in all
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major respects, it's simply provided to make one PART of the upgrade
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easier.
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1995-10-20 10:01:39 +00:00
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IMPORTANT NOTE: What this upgrade procedure may also do, in fact, is
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completely destroy your system (though much more quickly than you
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would have been able to destroy it yourself). It is simply impossible
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to guarantee that this procedure's crude form of upgrade automation
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will work in all cases and if you do this upgrade without proper
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BACKUPS for any important data then you really must like living life
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1995-10-20 14:26:15 +00:00
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close to the edge, that's all we can say!
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NOTE to 2.0 users: We're sorry, but the "slice" changes that were
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added in FreeBSD 2.0.5 made automated upgrades pretty difficult due to
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the fact that a complete reinstall is pretty much called for. Things
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1996-12-15 18:14:37 +00:00
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may still *work* after an upgrade, but you will also no doubt receive
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many warnings at boot time about non-aligned slices and such; we
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really do recommend a fresh installation for 2.0 systems! (But back
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up your user data first :-).
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