Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:38:44 +1200 From: "Richard Shea" <richardshea@fastmail.fm> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Possible ? - clean install but preserve one filesystem ? Message-ID: <20030913093844.DF20474834@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com>
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Hi - I'm having problems upgrading 4.4 -> 4.8 but it's got to work by Monday so I'm looking at all my options. Before things went bad I backed up off the machine /etc and /usr/local/etc. Also took notes about file systems etc. I have one file system on its own IDE drive that I would like to preserve and have available after the upgrade. My question is this : if I act as if the machine had never had FreeBSD on it at all will a normal install in some way go digging around on that IDE drive and trash the contents ? It doesn't seem likely but it's important that it's safe. If not I guess I could re-install from scratch and only once the install was complete would I then tell FreeBSD about the IDE drive ? It's a long time since I did a clean install and I've sort of forgotten the degree to which FreeBSD probes for disks. Thanks Richard Shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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