From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 12:02:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA04475 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 12:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA04468 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 12:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from office.demon.net (office.demon.net [193.195.224.1]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id MAA06116 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 12:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk by office.demon.net id aa29932; 11 May 96 19:55 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA29659; Sat, 11 May 1996 19:47:25 GMT Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 19:47:25 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199605111947.TAA29659@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Benjamin Tomhave on Fri, 10 May 1996 11:50:10 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: simple questions Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Benjamin Tomhave writes: > > In the instructions for upgrading FreeBSD (in this case, from 2.1.0 to the > latest SNAP release), it says that I will need to manually merge files in > the /etc directory. Exactly what does this entail? Seeing as a good > number of files in the /etc directory are of great importance, I am > curious about what wouldn't be restored to that directory that I would > need to do manually. I assume the idea's so that you can add in any customisations you have painstaking added to the original files, rather than having the upgrade write the standard files over them and make you do all that work again. If you're familiar with emacs, merging files can be done fairly easily with 'M-x emerge-files'; otherwise, looking at the output from 'diff' is my best suggestion. > Second, in the SNAP release, there are 2 boot floppies -- boot.flp and > boot4.flp. What's the diff between them, if any? The second one's a cut-down version for use on systems with 4MB of RAM.