Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:00:45 +0000 From: Crispy Beef <crispy.beef@ntlworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation... Message-ID: <43BA4B4D.1030005@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <17337.29620.928986.319095@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20060102180012.71103.qmail@web86904.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <43B96B9F.4000601@ntlworld.com> <17337.29620.928986.319095@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: > Crispy Beef writes: > > >> I wasn't aware that I needed to do a buildworld too, am limited >> on the amount of disk space I have, the whole disk is 6Gb with a >> 1Gb /home and over 3Gb /usr. Is that going to be enough? > > > 1) It is _very_ important to keep the kernel and userland in > sync. > 2) > > huff@>> du -s /usr/src > 442996 /usr/src > > As a ball-park estimate, figure 1Gb when you need to update. > Assuming you have a high-speed connection, I would rebuild > world and kernel per the handbook. After installing and testing the > new system I would save the kernel config file elsewhere and delete > /usr/src and /usr/obj. THe next time you need to rebuild you'll > need to clear the disk and download the entire source tree, but > you'll have the disk available until then. Basically I had just installed 6.0-RELEASE from the CD, got the kernel sources from an ftp server (using sysinstall) and then proceded to build the kernel as I mentioned in another post (traditional method). Basically you're saying I should grab the entire source tree and then build everything before the kernel? Just checking before I go ahead...having said that as it's a clean install there's nothing too vital on the system so won't matter to much if I trash it.
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