From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 18:32:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA23562 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.84]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23545 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00241; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:31:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ian Kallen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "make world" documented? In-Reply-To: <31F7BB95.7A5@gamespot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Ian Kallen wrote: > After updating my source trees, I'm planning on running "make world" > -- at least that's my understanding of what's next in the upgrade > recipe. What are you upgrading from -> to? If you are going to 2.1.5-RELEASE then you can just pull the boot floppy and use the "Upgrade" item to update the system. > Is "make world" documented? Building the whole system is something you want to avoid if you can, especially if you haven't done it. It requires upward of 500mb to pull the whole sources, leaving room for the object files and the completed binaries. > Among the benefits I hope to derive from upgrding, it's really > important to me that sysinstall be updated -- the version on the 2.1 CD > aparently has a bug in it that has prevented me from adding a second > SCSI drive to the system, I'm told that the 2.1.5 upgrade will remedy > this problem. Then just use the normal upgrade procedure. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major