From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 1 21:48:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48AB237B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA15722; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:48:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No UPDATING for RELENG_3? In-Reply-To: <20000930224049.H25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: > > I didn't do a binary upgrade, I cvsup'd RELENG_3_2_0. The machine in > > question doesn't have either a CD or floppy drive, and it also only has > > 8 meg of RAM, all of which make binary upgrading a bit difficult. > > Otherwise, I'd have wiped the machine and installed 4.1.1 fresh. > > Holy, @#$%! And you do buildworlds on this machine!? Sounds like a > source upgrade would be even tougher. How long does it take to do one? Pentium-133. Doing a buildworld for 2.2.8 took 11 hours. :-) > Can you not do sysinstall on 8 MB anymore? Last time I tried it, no, and I seem to remember finding articles saying the minimum RAM requirement is 12 MB these days. That was for 3.x. > If sysinstall does not work on 8 MB anymore, do you have another > machine that you can use to help? That opens up a lot more options. But mostly, this is just a fun exercise. Just seeing if I _could_ do it all the way. :-) If it fails, I'll bite the bullet and get a RAM upgrade then do a fresh install. But it would be more fun if it works. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message