Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:59:23 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distributing binaries only? Message-ID: <l03020904b058688dc13e@[194.32.164.2]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971001160048.310A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
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Hi, At 10:06 pm +0100 1/10/97, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >i have a machine with very little disk space that i'm using for a >gateway/firewall, the problem is that i would like to update the machine >to 2.2.2-stable, however i only have like 60megs to work with (base >distribution only, no source). I just had to get a router going in a hurry and I only had a 40Mb disk. What I did was to unpack the bin distribution in spare space on another machine, cut out large chunks of it, and tar/gzip what remained into a single piece (bin.aa). You also need bin.mtree and bin.inf: hack the latter up to say Pieces = 1 and junk the cksum lines. Then do an NFS install. Not elegant but it worked. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK
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