Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:11:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Stable Mailing List) Subject: boot blocks, and 3.0 -> 3.1 upgrade Message-ID: <19990314141126.2259B14D76@hub.freebsd.org>
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i just installed 3.1 from the CD and cvsuped to current on one of my laptops. All went well. This inspires me to upgrade my work laptop. However I am concernde. This machine _must_ work. I can't take the risk of breaking it! It's set up a lttle stangely, and I would like to hear the _safest_ way to upgrade it. It is a triple boot machien, using a combination of booteasy, and NT boot loader. it's structired like this, on a 8G drive: Partition Size Type Usage ---------- ---- ---- ---- 1 2G FAT32 Win95 2 2G FreeBSD FreeBSD (3.0) curently) 3 2G FAT32 WinNT (4.0 + service pack 3) 4 1.5G FAT32 Common spae Upon power up, booteasy comesup and offers the following choices: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F3 DOS F4 DOS Only the first 2 work. Choosing the first one takes you to the NT Bootmanafer, which ofers 95, and NT. Now I would like to get this amchien to 3.-STABLE. So here is the questiomn, what is the _safest_ way to do thhis? I would prefer to avoid a reinstall, if possible. Thansk for the workds of wisdom, and advice on this. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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