From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 17:48:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA17555 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:48:37 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA17549 ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:48:32 -0700 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA11623; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:48:20 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id UAA07129; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:48:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:48:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: -Vince- , Ollivier Robert , FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.05A In-Reply-To: <25051.802039286@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. > > Jordan If this is true, I'm curious just what I'm gaining with the new filesystem, besides a new way to refer to partitions. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------