Subject: Re: Upgrade from 1.4.2ALPHA to 1.5
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/15/2001 21:50:55
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:22:20AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote:
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> I'm currently running 1.4.2ALPHA on a Dell Dimension T600 and would
> like to upgrade to 1.5; however, I can't afford to rebuild the
> Win98SE partition.
> 
> My disk is partitioned as follows:
> 
> First partition:	Win98SE              7   MB
> Second partition:	NetBSD 1.4.2ALPHA	5.8 MB
> 
> I have a boot selector loaded but I don't need it since I need to
> boot NetBSD from floppy due to sound card support issues.
> 
> Can I use the upgrade option from the 1.5 installation media or
> should I boot the install disk and manually replace everything on the
> NetBSD partition?

You can even chose the install option, it will not blow your Win98 partition
unless you explicitely change the MBR partition table.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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