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. > ----------------------- > Scott I. Remick scott@computeralt.com > Network and Information (802)388-7545 ext. 236 > Systems Manager FAX:(802)388-3697 > Computer Alternatives, Inc. http://www.computeralt.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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