From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 1 14:36:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10533 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10502 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id WAA19353; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 22:11:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 22:06:13 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:59:23 +0100 To: Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: distributing binaries only? Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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