From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 10:43:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA06107 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:43:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06093 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01284; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:36:38 -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:36:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Davide Tomi cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1 In-Reply-To: <199602141150.DAA17246@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Davide Tomi wrote: > Hi, > > I have to upgrade my FreeBSD system from 2.0 > to 2.1 (from CD-ROM). > The problem is that it seems that is not possible > to upgrade without reinstalling the all system. > This is a problem for me because I have many > applications installed. You can do it, just mount the filesystems instead of re-making them. you might want to recompile anyway, tehre are some binary changes between 2.0 and 2.0.5/2.1. Don't forget to install the compat2x library! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major