Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 08:44:44 +0500 From: "Iain Dooley" <iain_dooley@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD Message-ID: <BAY15-F310DD277E3C63356BCCD268B3A0@phx.gbl>
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hi there, i'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Thinkpad 586, with a 1GB HDD and something like 48 MB of ram, with a pentium 133 processor. there is no CD drive, so i installed from floppies via FTP and selected 'minimal' installation, and didn't install any of the ports or src. i now want to upgrade to 5.3 (for various reasons) and i want to have a source tree that i can use to maintain my system via cvsup. in my stable-supfile, i commented out src-all, and then selected only the packages that i thought i would need. i commented out src-contrib, but this produced an error that make did not know how to build bool-array.cc. src-contrib is very large, and there are loads and loads of programs in there that i don't need for this machine (i am really only ever going to use the laptop to ssh into another computer on my network at home and from uni over the wireless network... it's just a portable terminal). i'm pretty confident that i could select what i need, (ie. i think i could go into contrib and select only the programs that i want to install) but i don't really know how to do it. do i need to edit the Makefiles? how can i cvsup only those programs in contrib that i need? my aim here is to have a compact source tree that i can use cvsup to keep current, but only takes up a couple of hundred meg. i'm not sure where to start. the handbook is usually a good place to start but i don't know the best section to look in. any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers iain _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
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