On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:06:32PM -0800, Dave Chapman wrote:
> This problem occurs after booting from floppy (boot1.fs & boot2.fs).  
> Do I have to physically disconnect any drive beyond sd2?

No, just cleanup /etc/fstab on your existing system.

> 
> Do I have to use sysinst?  Could I just boot into single user mode of 
> my current version (or using the above floppy set) and extract the 
> binary distribution of 1.5 over top of the current version?
> cd /
> tar -zxvf <path><filename.tgz>

On i386 you should be able to do that, but with some care:
first extract the kern.tgz set and reboot with the new kernel.
Then extract the other sets from /, with
tar -zpxvf <path><filename.tgz>
(don't miss the 'p' or permissions will be wrong).
But systinst also take care of a few other things (removing obsolete files,
moving shared libraries to /emul/aout, etc ...) that are hard to do this way.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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