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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:48:45 -0500
From:      "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com>
Subject:   RE: 2.2.8 -> 3.2, have System Commander already
Message-ID:  <041901beedc2$09fa75c0$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19990823191418.00b24cb0@mail.computeralt.com>

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Hi,

Try this link, it may help you

http://freebsd.simplenet.com/make-upgrade.html

Ales

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott I. Remick <scott@computeralt.com>
To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:19 PM
Subject: 2.2.8 -> 3.2, have System Commander already


> Ok, before I trash things, I just want to toss this out:
>
> I have a 2.2.8 system.  I want to upgrade to 3.2.  I've made my boot disks
> with kern and mfsroot.  Thing is, the 2.2.8 is on a system with 2 hard
> drives running System Commander.  Working great... I just want to keep it
> that way!
>
> What's the sure way to perform the upgrade without mucking things up?  SC
> will let me boot to floppy, so that's not a problem... I'm thinking I can
> just tell the FreeBSD upgrade to not touch my existing boot manager
> (right?)... what kinds of questions is it going to ask about where to do
> its thing?  How should I answer them?
>
> Call me paranoid (I'm sure it's going to be fine), but I REALLY can't be
> rendering this system non-bootable for my other partitions for any length
> of time. So I just want to make sure.
>
> And I'm sure there are other 2.2.8 -> 3.2 issues I should know of, so feel
> free to throw them at me too.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> -----------------------
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