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Date:      Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:36:49 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Robin Becker <robin@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010802153649.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <qXWby5AH0Ta7Ewwd@jessikat.demon.co.uk>

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On 02-Aug-01 Robin Becker wrote:
> In article <9njeusAQmTa7EwwH@jessikat.demon.co.uk>, Robin Becker
> <robin@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes
> 
> After extracting all src, I have 381M left on /usr. This sounds a bit
> tight to me. I have 169M in /usr/ports. Can I remove that for the
> duration of the make world steps?

Sure. Get rid of it. You have a new, better, ports tarball on your 4.3-CD anyway.

> 
> 
> Also one thing that bothers me in the steps
> 
>#cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
>#/sbin/config GENERIC
>#cd ../../compile/GENERIC
>#make depend && make && make install
> 
> does /sbin/config take account of any changes I might have made during
> the original install? I can't even remember if and what things I changed
> although I seem to remember resolving some irq conflicts.

No. you'd have to use your own kernel to do that. But if the changes were made
via the "boot -c"-option these changes will still be in effect.

I.e. if you have made your own kernel once: use it again instead of Generic above
else it just "should work".


/M






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