Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:13:32 +0100 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice Message-ID: <94136a2c0901132313ga018517idd21cf7a784aae7f@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a different slice to install the new one. Then I pray, hope for the best and reboot. However, I read that if I want to update to 7.1 I will need to boot a generic kernel at some point. What option do I have? Even if I install a copy of GENERIC kernel into /boot, it most likely won't fit in the available file space. The problem is the machine's remote so I cannot take it down, replace drives, etc. as I am bound by a hosting contract and frankly I really do not want to do that unless I have no other option. Thoughts? Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.fairtrade.net.pl
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