Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:52:21 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade strategy Message-ID: <20010525235221.A25812@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <3B0EF58E.301374AC@DougBarton.net> References: <20010525134240.A15254@polands.org> <3B0EF58E.301374AC@DougBarton.net>
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:15:10PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > 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. > Sounds reasonable :) Thanks! -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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