From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 19:42:09 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA10689 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:42:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.139]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA10684 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:42:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00255; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:41:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:41:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Greg Grohoski cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: "preservation" install In-Reply-To: <9612311524.AA24499@woody.cyrix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Greg Grohoski wrote: > Are there any plans to offer a "preservation" install? > By this I mean an install which overwrites only system files > (/usr/sbin, /usr/src/..., ...) and endeavors to leave > configuration (/etc/sysconfig, ...) and user-level > data/directories (/home, ...) alone? The upgrade option in sysinstall attempts to do this. It does try to migrate you /etc directory and can replace or edit some files, so just back it up before running the upgrade procedure and restore it when you get dumped to the shell prompt after the upgrade. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major