Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 18:37:34 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@blaise.ibp.fr>, FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.05A Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950601183110.15000s-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <25051.802039286@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Really? I was told that the 2.05A sources would allow me to > > upgrade but I won't get any of the disk optimizations and other things > > without doing a full install and I would need to do a full reinstall to > > get properly optimized and coverted to the slice code since there will > > probably be no backwards compatibility of this in 2.1. Can anyone > > confirm this? Jordan? Thanks. > > This is all true. Please folks, don't mislead people by telling them > that "upgrades" are a simple matter of holding your left foot in the > air while extracting the bindist over a system in single user mode > while "Muskrat Love" is playing on the radio. Sure, it might _work_ > but whether or not it works 100% is another matter, and WE get to pick > up the pieces afterwards in the questions list! > > THERE IS NO UPGRADE PATH FROM 2.0R TO 2.0.5! I'm sorry, I wish there > was, but there wasn't time to do the work. Does this rule apply to upgrade from 2.0 -current to 2.0.5? Is there something different about the fs code that requires reformating and repartitioning the disks for 2.0.5 from -current? Thanks! Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free!
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