Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:05:01 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system Message-ID: <24427.934315501@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Hi folks, I've just gotten feedback from PR 12777, in which at least 2 people are complaining that sysinstall as installed by 3.1-RELEASE can not be used to upgrade a live machine to 3.2-RELEASE on the fly. I've told both parties that they need to use a boot floppy with the correct version of sysinstall, or build a 3.2-RELEASE sysinstall from source, and one of the chaps I'm speaking to thinks that this is unreasonable. Before I tell him that diffs are welcome, I thought I'd check that I'm not making a mistake here. I lost my confidence when it was pointed out that sysinstall can be given any arbitrary release name to use for Upgrade without issuing any warnings. So? Am I wrong? If you _are_ supposed to be able to upgrade to any arbitrary release using sysinstall as installed by any prior release, perhaps someone could suggest the cause of the problems reported on the PR? Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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