Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:26:01 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: David Hawkins <dhawk@ohio.river.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2 -> 3.4 upgrade, limited disk space, no cd's Message-ID: <20000418222601.H55844@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000417144738.A8274@ohio.river.org>; from dhawk@ohio.river.org on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 02:47:38PM -0700 References: <20000417144738.A8274@ohio.river.org>
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 02:47:38PM -0700, David Hawkins wrote: > Been trying to figure this out with no luck. > > I have a 3.2 FreeBSD box with a 200 MB root, 200 MB /var and 200 MB > /usr > > I'd like to upgrade it to 3.4 so a friend can compile a program and > then I'm going to wipe it clean and install 4.0 from CDs. It's on > a DSL line, so access to the network is no problem. Out of curiousity, why do you need to go to 3.4 just to compile something? > Can I cvsup and build and install sections of the /usr/src directory > individually and then remove those and build the next section? Like > /usr/src/bin and then /usr/src/contrib, etc.? If so, is there a > particular order to do those in? That would be really tricky. Then the order in which things build is not straightforward. > Or can I use ftp to install 3.4 over 3.2? If you just want to install 3.4 for one compile, I would boot up a 3.4 floppy and install it over your 3.2 with the "Upgrade" option. That is what you are planning for 4.0, right? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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