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author | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-12 16:21:36 +0000 |
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committer | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-12 16:21:36 +0000 |
commit | ce13ade8faafc7aa846f54b8d0364db6f8fb5c22 (patch) | |
tree | adb3371b2ffae72850507ab5f4b3e2793268e635 /release | |
parent | efc02b645339a7893a4d03dbc6e3964b407073ba (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-ce13ade8faafc7aa846f54b8d0364db6f8fb5c22.zip FreeBSD-src-ce13ade8faafc7aa846f54b8d0364db6f8fb5c22.tar.gz |
Update to reflect current affairs.
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-rw-r--r-- | release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/sysinstall/help/upgrade.hlp | 12 |
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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 |