Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 12:37:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: Paul Vinciguerra <PVinci@ix.netcom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.1 install "upgrade" question? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91a.950409121315.13214A-100000@saul4.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504091825.LAA26219@ref.tfs.com>
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Hi; On Sun, 9 Apr 1995, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Is the 2.1 installation going to have an option to "upgrade" from 2.0R > > (the CD)? Since the 2.0 install assumed no investment in Freebsd (it > > just layed down the image and didn't care how much time you spent > > setting up 1.x). If you want this to be really user friendly, we need > > an option to lay down only the "delta". All serious packages offer > > "upgrade from 1.x" > > "upgrade from 2.0R" > > "new installation" > > > > If this can't be done in time, I suggest an easy to find doc to walk a > > current FreeBSD'er through doing an "upgrade" > > This is such an sensible thing to suggest. Any idea where we find the > time to do it ? > This brings up an important question. If a user has multiple disks dedicated to freebsd, can he just *centralize* all the *stock distribution* stuff in one disk and use the other disks or even *partitions* on the same disk to keep the stuff he has alread installed? I understand ( at least i think i do ) that the filesystem structure changed between 1.1 and 2.0, but will it change between 2.0 and 2.1? The 2.0 and snap installs *appear* to assume that any disk it finds is either: a. not going to be touched, but might be visited by FreeBSD in the future ( ie dosfs ) or; b. FreeBSD property, and thereby subject to newfs. upon writing this it seems that it should be possible to just tell the current install ( 2.0 and SNAP 3-22 and previous ) to leave the old FreeBSD partitions alone, and then hand modify /etc/fstab later. In order to make use of the stuff on your old drives or partitions you would need to grab the correct libc..but that is easy enuf to do, u could even copy it from your own setup previous to eliminating it's existence ( but if u are like me, u would probably forget to.. :-) ) So the dm1,000,000 question is: WILL the 2.0 and 2.1 Filesystem formats be compatible??? If it is, then this will simply be a documentation issue that could probably be covered in a few short paragraphs.... if not, then binary upgrade will continue to be the dramatic trauma it has always been.. i am on number...mmm 8 i think, counting 386bsd. it usually takes me about three days of nonstop work to get it mostly finished. Now that the nca driver works, and *if* i can ever sort out why i *cant* get slip to work on my 3-22 box, i will then ftp the bindist to my qic-80 tape and then do it from there, i hope! That might still take 3 days, but it wont require near as much of *my* time ... > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. > 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' > => 'no rude people are relevant' > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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