From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 07:13:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BBF1065670 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zszalbot@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f20.google.com (mail-bw0-f20.google.com [209.85.218.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A238FC16 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zszalbot@gmail.com) Received: by bwz13 with SMTP id 13so1315115bwz.19 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=e355MwWN10X+K7wpRuGl8f8MP2ydGkLzr850Sx1yM7U=; b=sxk91fvPxPP/YrJAbNfhuo+zg1QDAbRYZ5/baRa/kLThPIxsEEkAbgjHp+X2Iiofll 9AE0qYPw7O9jA8mfLGpuschAxpRk/bCsSo3QOsmhY7kq1Ze0U/+QR6MF5Eff+hAwpUTl kZCirGMgKwE+lYN6IaNHSrAo8PrOAo/F60Z0I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=GuX5kxhw1vj3y26hRcMaXmUgdDjxg1GoOfGlrXYa7t71eW0fgxTjDoP1xoZC9Z0IXZ BRg5yZ0j5dnvWNVO5Y03NWQ/9mackEAK6FyMqZPX45QQPA1Q6dM7PBixn9BMtormb/Vb 35kpvS2I7al/DO61wV+9fUgkPQdcXhH/rHrdU= Received: by 10.223.126.69 with SMTP id b5mr13011613fas.54.1231917212690; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.125.134 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <94136a2c0901132313ga018517idd21cf7a784aae7f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:13:32 +0100 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" To: "User Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:13:35 -0000 Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a different slice to install the new one. Then I pray, hope for the best and reboot. However, I read that if I want to update to 7.1 I will need to boot a generic kernel at some point. What option do I have? Even if I install a copy of GENERIC kernel into /boot, it most likely won't fit in the available file space. The problem is the machine's remote so I cannot take it down, replace drives, etc. as I am bound by a hosting contract and frankly I really do not want to do that unless I have no other option. Thoughts? Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.fairtrade.net.pl