Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Glenn Campbell <glenn@cgc.ns.ca>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.2 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906291709420.19252-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906300939350.17275-100000@bragg>
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > In addressing my ftpchroot problem I was thinking of upgrading to 3.2. Will > > I have to backup all of my filesystems for a fresh new fs wipe and create > > or can I preserve the existing contents easily and upgrade? > Barring act of god, you can upgrade your system 'online' without needing to > wipe partitions. It is always smart to back up before doing major upgrades, of > course, but thousands of people have done exactly this without incident (some > of us developers upgrade our systems almost daily :-). Instead of actually upgrading your entire system just to fix one niggling problem, why not just try a new FTP server? You might have better luck with, say, ProFTPD... upgrading seems like overkill IMHO. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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