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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:52:21 -0500
From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Upgrade strategy
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:15:10PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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. 
> 
Sounds reasonable :)

Thanks!

-- 

Regards,
Doug

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