From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 17:29:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A97137B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 17:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.152.235]) by tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010526002926.SZT28559.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 25 May 2001 20:29:26 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f4Q0QoN94765; Fri, 25 May 2001 20:26:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <007d01c0e57a$638cb330$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Doug Barton" , "Doug Poland" Cc: References: <20010525134240.A15254@polands.org> <3B0EF58E.301374AC@DougBarton.net> Subject: Re: Upgrade strategy Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:25:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Doug Poland wrote: > > > > Sorry for "yet another" upgrade question. I have a modest > > 80486 running 4.1.1-RELEASE who's purpose in life is > > gateway/NAT/ipfw. I did a "minimal" install. > > > > I want to upgrade this box to -STABLE. I have the latest > > sources and binaries built on a big, fast box on my network. > > I have successfully mounted my bigfastbox:/usr/src on > > smaller boxes and done make installworld. > > > > My question is: how do I get a "minimal" install on the 4.1.1 > > box using this technique? > > You don't. There is no equivalent to a minimal install from source, 'make > [install]world' installs the whole system. If you're short of disk space on > the '486 you should do another CD install to do the upgrade. While true, there are still ways to make a 'make world' more minimal. In /etc/make.conf, I added the following lines: NOCRYPT=true NOGAMES=true NOSHARE=true NOINFO=true NOPROFILE=true NOMAKE_KERBEROS4=true NOMAKE_KERBEROS5=true This was almost enough so that I could a 'make installworld' on my little 486 firewall machine, which only has a 90MB /usr. The reason why I say "almost enough" is that while it was doing the install (via NFS from my build machine), I had to be sitting at the console deleting things that I didn't want/need, such as perl, man pages, and certain large binaries and libraries (gcc, include files, etc.) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message