Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:02:50 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> Cc: tnt@home.se, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typical space to build 2.2-STABLE? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901250901110.3594-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <001a01be486b$982c1940$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > My firewall is the 2.2.8 machine (486-100) and my main machine is dual-boot > (Win98 and FreeBSD 3.0). My wife's is a Win95 166MMX. I would like to > upgrade the 2.2.8 machine, which only has a combined total of 660MB (220MB > (/,/usr/local/,/var) + 440MB(/usr)). I would like the machine upgraded to > the latest 2.2-STABLE with everything I need before the ports get to far > gone and just to keep it up to date. > > I have considered putting 3.0 on the machine, but I think the ELF binaries > are bigger and the machine is already hurting for space. I suppose I could > compile the entire system on NFS too. What kind of performance hit would I > take on the network or on the firewall machine? ELF binaries aren't that much bigger. Building over NFS is rather slow. Just do a "buildworld" on your main machine, and then do an "installworld" on your firewall machine. Very easy and very quick. And then of course, if you have other machines, you can "installworld" on them too. > Tom Veldhouse > veldy@visi.com Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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