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authorjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-12 16:21:36 +0000
committerjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-12 16:21:36 +0000
commitce13ade8faafc7aa846f54b8d0364db6f8fb5c22 (patch)
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Update to reflect current affairs.
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-rw-r--r--release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp11
-rw-r--r--release/sysinstall/help/upgrade.hlp12
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp
index 58fa5d9..a7b397c 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp
+++ b/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp
@@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ from "John Smith <jsm@bar.com>" in the simple, no-frills registration
case. If you do not have an email address, some sort of postal
address will serve the same purpose.
-If you also wish to receive the upcoming FreeBSD Newsletter (soon to
-published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM) in
-printed form, then you must specify some sort of postal address.
-Likewise, if you elect to receive the email version then you should
-specify a valid Email address.
+If you also wish to receive the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and
+distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM in printed form,
+then you must specify some sort of postal address. Likewise, if you
+elect to receive notification on the email version then you should
+specify a valid Email address. Back-issues of the FreeBSD newsletter
+are available at http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/
Should you wish to unsubscribe to the FreeBSD Newsletter or otherwise
de-register yourself at a later time, you can simply send mail to
diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/upgrade.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/upgrade.hlp
index e0673bb..282a382 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/help/upgrade.hlp
+++ b/release/sysinstall/help/upgrade.hlp
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
-Welcome to the 2.1.x (or 2.0.5) -> 2.1.7 upgrade procedure!
+Welcome to the 2.2.5 upgrade procedure!
It must first be said that this upgrade DOES NOT take a particularly
sophisticated approach to the upgrade problem, it being more a
question of providing what seemed "good enough" at the time. A truly
polished upgrade that deals properly with the broad spectrum of
-installed 2.0.5 / 2.1.x systems would be nice to have, but until that
-gets written what you get is this - the brute-force approach!
+installed 2.x systems would be nice to have, but until that gets
+written what you get is this - the brute-force approach!
What this upgrade will attempt to do is best summarized thusly:
1. fsck and mount all file systems chosen in the label editor.
- 2. Ask for a location to preserve your /etc directory into and do so.
+ 2. Ask for a location to preserve your /etc directory into.
3. Extract all selected distributions on top of your existing system.
4. Copy certain obvious files back from the preserved /etc, leaving the
rest of the /etc file merge up to the user.
5. Drop user in a shell so that they may perform that merge before
rebooting into the new system.
-And that's it! This "upgrade" is not going to hold your hand in all
-major respects, it's simply provided to make one PART of the upgrade
+And that's it! This "upgrade" is not going to hold your hand to any
+major degree, it's simply provided to make one PART of the upgrade
easier.
IMPORTANT NOTE: What this upgrade procedure may also do, in fact, is
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