Re: Upgrading BSD

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Huff
Ralph Ellis writes: > Usually you have to upgrade from major release to major release > i.e. 4.8 to 5.5, 5.5 to 6.1 etc. However, if you are only > protecting data files then copy them to a cd, dvd or separate > disk drive and do a clean install of 6.1. If you want to protect > configuration

Re: Upgrading BSD

2006-08-30 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 1:02 pm, Amita Bargal (ambargal) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine which has BSD 4.8 on it. Is it possible to upgrade to > version 6.0 without affecting/deleting/losing any files currently > present on the machine. > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD tcp-01-pc7 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD

Upgrading BSD

2006-08-30 Thread Amita Bargal \(ambargal\)
Hi, I have a machine which has BSD 4.8 on it. Is it possible to upgrade to version 6.0 without affecting/deleting/losing any files currently present on the machine. $ uname -a FreeBSD tcp-01-pc7 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Fri Jul 18 10:43:30 PDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/devtest/kame