From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 31 21:33:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA27944 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 21:33:01 -0700 Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu (spaz@saul4.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA27938 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 21:33:00 -0700 Received: by saul4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA17391; Wed, 31 May 95 21:32:55 -0700 X-Sender: spaz@saul4.u.washington.edu Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 21:32:55 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Rashid Karimov." , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Smooth upgrade to 2.0.5 from latest SNAP - HOW ? In-Reply-To: <18204.801950767@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Uh -oh.... On Wed, 31 May 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Will the ususal scheme with untarring bin/kernel src/recompiling > > play as it used to be ? > > Erm.. No. :-( > > > Are there any significant changes in the FS formats ( I've heard > > about table of bad blocks - is this new ? Will the old FS work > > in this case ? )... > > It will work, but you will get warnings spewed at you every time you > boot up. We went to a new "Slices" paradigm (where's that slice.doc, > Poul & Bruce?? :-) which has made laying down your partitions again > a pretty good idea! > arg, i am still running the march snap ( the bad ld.so one ) i thought that the fs was static by then. This is not the case? reinstall from scratch? no preserve? bummer! > > Backups! :-) i know, but, ... oh well, done it before, do it again... > Jordan > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life