Date: Mon, 01 Sep 97 15:09:23 -0700 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Upgrade/sysinstall questions.. what am I downloading? :) Message-ID: <199709012209.PAA12237@mail.san.rr.com>
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After a long time period, I finally have a chance to actually try a feature I hoped for a long time ago, and Jordan said should work.. namely using /stand/sysinstall to upgrade a system remotely. I pulled down the source for the new sysinstall, built it, and told it to go to 22-releng.freebsd.org to do the upgrade. Well, it dutifully went and started grabbing stuff, but it never gave me a chance to tell it what snap to grab. Am I downloading the latest snap? If not, how would I specify that? It's a 2.2.1-R -> 2.2-Stable upgrade, and if it gets munged, the boss has to do it from the console, which is fine since he has to do some hardware mods tomorrow anyway. Also, do I gain anything from upgrading via make world as opposed to an upgrade with sysinstall? I have a pentium II system and I specify CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe and COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe in /etc/make.conf because my understanding is that will give me a little better performance overall. (The -O2, not the -pipe obviously. :) Also, does the HAVE_FPU flag in make.conf help anything other than the sun libm? I saw a message to that effect here a little while ago, but forgot to follow up. High performance is a priority on this system, so every little tweak helps. Thanks for any help, Doug Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"
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