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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:50:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Hank (Henry) Miller" <millerh@anubis.network.com>
Cc:        hank miller <hank@black-hole.com>, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: 3.4->4.0 update comments
Message-ID:  <200002172050.PAA74197@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000217141809.23317A-100000@comet>

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On 17-Feb-00 Hank (Henry) Miller wrote:
> 
> attempted to update my system from 3.4 to 4.0, and have not had success.
> 
> 
> Started with CVSUP, 
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> rebooted to single user - so far so good.
> make installworld  This failed with something in install-info.  I'm not
> sure that this isn't something leftover in the CVS tree on my system or a
> bug, if nobody else sees it I'll assume something myfault.  (Unfortunatly
> it scrolled off the screen as each makefile failed, and I can't remember
> the process to pile stderr to a file.

Just do a make -DNOINFO installworld at this point.  It's a known issue.
Once that is done, do a full make installworld.  Don't forget to update
/dev, /etc/fstab, and your boot blocks ('disklabel -B ad0') as well.

> Went with plan of attack two: build two disks with the feb 14 snapshot.
> ran out of space on /
> hmm... deleted all the old kernels around, since they shouldn't work
> anyway.  4 kernels and a few small misc files, and I'm stuck.
> 
> Now I'll grant that / is not big on my system (30 meg? more then 20, not
> more then 35) but / then / shouldn't need to be big.  I only used 68% of /
> before. /usr, /usr/local, and /var are different partitions with plenty of
> space.  (also several non-OS partitions)
> 
> Are files in / really that much bigger then 3.x?  If so it should be
> documented since I'm sure I'm not the only one with a small / partition.

In 3.4, and in -current, the defualt sizes in sysinstall when you use
auto defaults for all is 50 meg for /.  You were almost done with the
upgrade, you only have 2 steps or so to go.

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