*BSD News Article 22932

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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce
Subject: 386BSD -> FreeBSD 1.0 upgrade script updated
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Date: 27 Oct 1993 19:31:00 -0700
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What it is:
-----------

This is to announce the (final) version of the 386BSD to FreeBSD 1.0
upgrade script.  This script allows you to 'upgrade' your 386BSD 0.1
machine to FreeBSD without having to re-install and re-partition your
hard disk.  However, because it does not do any low-level hard disk
manipulation, it can't give you a larger swap partition or help you to
re-organize your hard disk partitions.

For anyone still running 386BSD, I would greatly encourage you to
consider upgrading, because 386BSD (even with the patchkits) is still a
very buggy piece of software (even admitted by it's own author).  There
are security considerations that need to be taken into account
especially if you are running it on a network, and most of these bugs
have been fixed in FreeBSD.  (Along with a large number of other bugs
which affect stability and useability)

Changes:
--------

There have been quite a few bugs fixed since the last announcement,
most notably:
1) The script now knows the correct installation file names
2) It correctly installs gcc2's C and C++ support
3) Updated the script to reflect some directory changes that have occured
   in the different FreeBSD releases
4) Updated the documentation to answer some common questions that arose
   before the upgrade and during the upgrade process.

A more detailed HISTORY file can be gotten in the distribution.

Where to get it?
----------------
As always, FreeBSD material can be gotten from "FreeBSD.cdrom.com", where
you will always find the most recent FreeBSD distribution which is
necessary for the upgrade scripts to work.  (You have to have something
to upgrade to :-)

The upgrade scripts are located:
~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.0/tools/upgrade/*



Nate

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