From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 7: 4: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EA337B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robin@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk) Received: from ftp.reportlab.co.uk ([194.159.4.137] helo=jessikat.demon.co.uk) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15SJ4v-000HwV-0K for questions@freeBSD.ORG; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:03:58 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:02:24 +0100 To: questions@freeBSD.ORG From: Robin Becker Subject: Re: 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <8fY3TEtAaFySF58ErPUfo9YLW3> 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 In article , Micke Josefsson writes > .... >> After extracting all src, I have 381M left on /usr. This sounds a bit >> tight to me. I have 169M in /usr/ports. Can I remove that for the >> duration of the make world steps? > >Sure. Get rid of it. You have a new, better, ports tarball on your 4.3-CD >anyway. ..... thanks, I thought I could. >> does /sbin/config take account of any changes I might have made during >> the original install? I can't even remember if and what things I changed >> although I seem to remember resolving some irq conflicts. > >No. you'd have to use your own kernel to do that. But if the changes were made >via the "boot -c"-option these changes will still be in effect. > >I.e. if you have made your own kernel once: use it again instead of Generic >above >else it just "should work". .... No I only made changes during the base install process during the preliminary kernel configuration. -- Robin Becker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message