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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:45:28 -0500
From:      Joshua Holland <josh@bitstream.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <p05001911b7ea55763cd6@[10.0.1.100]>
In-Reply-To: <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua>
References:  <p0500190fb7e991f41dc0@[10.0.1.100]> <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua>

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Do I need lots of hard drive space?  Can I delete stuff before 
running CVSup (like the existing ports collection, after installing 
CVSup)?

>----- Original Message -----
>From: Joshua Holland <josh@bitstream.net>
>Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:55 AM
>Subject: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE
>
>
>>  I just tried upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4 with /stand/sysinstall.  It
>>  went through the process and at the end there were messages saying it
>>  couldn't find /etc/fstab and /etc/groups.  It let me continue, and
>>  said the upgrade was successful.  I rebooted, and it couldn't find
>>  kernel, and booted off of kernel.old (/etc/fstab and /etc/groups were
>>  there).  /etc/upgrade did not exist.  uname returns 4.3.  My disk
>>  space went form 52% to 90% used.  Were my binaries upgraded?  Where
>>  is the new kernel?  How can I check these things?  Can I just
>>  download 4.4 src and compile a kernel now?
>>
>
>Why not just CVSup STABLE branch and compile whole system
>from sources? Take an example for CVSup configuration file
>from the /usr/share/examples/cvsup directoty for STABLE branche,
>install cvsup from package and update your system with "make
>buildworld" and "make installworld". Before clean content of the
>/usr/obj directory.


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