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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:40:49 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Ken Bolingbroke <freebsd@bolingbroke.com>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No UPDATING for RELENG_3?
Message-ID:  <20000930224049.H25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301956540.25639-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>; from freebsd@bolingbroke.com on Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:59:43PM -0700
References:  <20000930183600.F25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301956540.25639-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>

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On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:59:43PM -0700, Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:13:23PM -0700, Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm in the middle of updating a machine from 2.2.5 to 4.1.1, hopefully.  
> > > I've got it to 2.2.8-S, successfully, then when the initial attempt to go
> > > from 2.2.8 to 3.5-S failed, I dropped down to 3.2-R which was successful.
> > 
> > You did a binary upgrade to 3.2-R? Why not just do the binary upgrade
> > to 4.1.1?
> 
> I didn't do a binary upgrade, I cvsup'd RELENG_3_2_0.  The machine in
> question doesn't have either a CD or floppy drive, and it also only has
> 8 meg of RAM, all of which make binary upgrading a bit difficult.  
> Otherwise, I'd have wiped the machine and installed 4.1.1 fresh.

Holy, @#$%! And you do buildworlds on this machine!? Sounds like a
source upgrade would be even tougher. How long does it take to do one?

Can you not do sysinstall on 8 MB anymore? If you can, I'd recommend
doing the minimal install of 4.1.1 over FTP. I can't imagine that that
would take longer than two or three buildworlds unless you are running
over a 1200 baud connection.

If sysinstall does not work on 8 MB anymore, do you have another
machine that you can use to help? That opens up a lot more options.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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