From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 17:15:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D272437B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 17:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA31276; Fri, 25 May 2001 17:15:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B0EF58E.301374AC@DougBarton.net> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:15:10 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Poland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade strategy References: <20010525134240.A15254@polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Poland wrote: > > Sorry for "yet another" upgrade question. I have a modest > 80486 running 4.1.1-RELEASE who's purpose in life is > gateway/NAT/ipfw. I did a "minimal" install. > > I want to upgrade this box to -STABLE. I have the latest > sources and binaries built on a big, fast box on my network. > I have successfully mounted my bigfastbox:/usr/src on > smaller boxes and done make installworld. > > My question is: how do I get a "minimal" install on the 4.1.1 > box using this technique? You don't. There is no equivalent to a minimal install from source, 'make [install]world' installs the whole system. If you're short of disk space on the '486 you should do another CD install to do the upgrade. Good luck, Doug -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message