Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:20:26 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When to transition to 3.0-STABLE.. NOT NOW! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990130101423.2318A-100000@ns.double-barrel.be> In-Reply-To: <199901300546.NAA00554@netrinsics.com>
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I know the fealing, What I tend to do myself, is each time the new relaese comes out is use a cheap ide disc, and dd my current version on it, make shure it boots correctly. then I proceed with the upgrade. So in case something goes wrong, I'm not the one who is stuck and end up with a system that is unusable. Michael Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Michael Robinson wrote: > Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> writes: > >Anyway hopefully this will help the adventurous or the cursed, and > >hopefully help out the upgrade team at least a little. > > Two more bits of advice: > > If you find yourself stuck halfway through the upgrade and need to reboot > your old kernel for some reason, remember, the live filesystem on the > 2.2.[678] CD-ROMs is your very good friend. Before you try to upgrade, > I recommend copying the a.out "mount_cd9660" program to a safe place on the > root partition. That way you can still mount the old binaries, libraries, > etc., if your installation barfs. (You say you didn't buy the CD-ROMs? > Shame on you!) > > Also, the new named and pccardd do not like the config files from the old > named and pccardd. Updates need to be done by hand. > > -Michael Robinson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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