Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:25:34 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Doug Barton" <DougB@DougBarton.net>, "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrade strategy Message-ID: <007d01c0e57a$638cb330$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20010525134240.A15254@polands.org> <3B0EF58E.301374AC@DougBarton.net>
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> 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
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