Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:04:42 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980319220116.428B-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319191849.11224A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, jack wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Tom wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> >
> > > Not knocking this, but I've expressed concern over one upgrade problem
> > ...
> > > on a machine that was freshly installed using the same BETA, the disk
> > > label editor comes up blank. If you quit out of the label editor at
> >
> > That method of upgrades is probably rarely tested. Most people use
> > installworld upgrades (I do). Much faster and painless than sysinstall
> > upgrades.
>
> When you've got nearly a dozen boxes to upgrade, some without the
> disk space to make world, upgrade installs from one machine are
> the way to go.
I have this same situation, but I do 'make world' on _one_ machine,
then run 'make reinstall' on all others with /usr/src and /usr/obj
NFS-mounted from the build machine.
The best of both worlds, as I see it. The ability to keep up to date on
all boxes while keeping disk requirements as low as possible.
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