From 90a93ec643e015ce079f7fa53a0476395558916d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 16:21:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update to reflect current affairs. --- release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp | 11 ++++++----- release/sysinstall/help/upgrade.hlp | 12 ++++++------ usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/register.hlp | 11 ++++++----- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp index 58fa5d9ae7f..a7b397c35a4 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/register.hlp @@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ from "John Smith " 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 e0673bbd638..282a3823622 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 diff --git a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/register.hlp b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/register.hlp index 58fa5d9ae7f..a7b397c35a4 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/register.hlp +++ b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/register.hlp @@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ from "John Smith " 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