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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:13:56 +0100
From:      Alexander Frolkin <alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk>
To:        Ken Bolingbroke <freebsd@bolingbroke.com>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No UPDATING for RELENG_3?
Message-ID:  <20001002201356.A1228@gamma>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009302247520.25639-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>; from freebsd@bolingbroke.com on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:48:00PM -0700
References:  <20000930224049.H25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009302247520.25639-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>

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On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:48:00PM -0700, Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> 
> > > I didn't do a binary upgrade, I cvsup'd RELENG_3_2_0.  The machine in
> > > question doesn't have either a CD or floppy drive, and it also only has
> > > 8 meg of RAM, all of which make binary upgrading a bit difficult.  
> > > Otherwise, I'd have wiped the machine and installed 4.1.1 fresh.
> > 
> > Holy, @#$%! And you do buildworlds on this machine!? Sounds like a
> > source upgrade would be even tougher. How long does it take to do one?
> 
> Pentium-133.  Doing a buildworld for 2.2.8 took 11 hours. :-)

That's nothing - it took me 3 _days_ to buildworld for 3.4 on a Pentium 75
with 8MB RAM over a network...


Alexander



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