Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:53:29 +0100 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice Message-ID: <94136a2c0901140553i405b455fv342b8f145e87b02b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0901132313ga018517idd21cf7a784aae7f@mail.gmail.com> References: <94136a2c0901132313ga018517idd21cf7a784aae7f@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13, Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Actually it is 242MB > 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? I found the problem. My oh my - I had makeoptions DEBUG=-g uncommented. When I commented it out, the new compiled kernel is only 32MB whereas the old one was 128 or so MB. So I am happy about it now. However, I do not have a GENERIC kernel in /boot and I will need it to do nextboot when I upgrade to 7.1. I thought I'd use the procedure described here http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html to compile a generic kernel # cd /usr/src # env DESTDIR=/boot/GENERIC make kernel # mv /boot/GENERIC/boot/kernel/* /boot/GENERIC # rm -rf /boot/GENERIC/boot When I make the GENERIC kernel, I again run out of space (I still have about 60MB free in /). So I guess the system is probably using the same "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" settings for the generic kernel. So my question is where is the kernel conf file based on which the generic kernel is compiled? Is it in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC ? Thank you in advance! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.fairtrade.net.pl
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