Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Wemm
"David E. Cross" wrote: > This is a bit of a tangent from the original post, but when did the FreeBSD > kernel start supporting ELF natively (not talking about Linux emulation). > I made the mistake of attempting to run a 3.0 ELF world with a 2.2.5 > kernel, and it worked (mostly). I was unaware

Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread David E. Cross
This is a bit of a tangent from the original post, but when did the FreeBSD kernel start supporting ELF natively (not talking about Linux emulation). I made the mistake of attempting to run a 3.0 ELF world with a 2.2.5 kernel, and it worked (mostly). I was unaware that anything that "old" support

Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5, and would like to upgrade to 3.1 > > without losing the tremendous amounts of data on my drive (backups are > > unfortunately not an option). > > I have seen several posts containing advice for accomplishing this ta

Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread Mike Nowlin
> I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5, and would like to upgrade to 3.1 > without losing the tremendous amounts of data on my drive (backups are > unfortunately not an option). > I have seen several posts containing advice for accomplishing this task > by altering sysinstall options, but this see

Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-29 Thread Andy Grum
Hello! I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5, and would like to upgrade to 3.1 without losing the tremendous amounts of data on my drive (backups are unfortunately not an option). I have seen several posts containing advice for accomplishing this task by altering sysinstall options, but this seems