From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 3:10:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-75.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B75837B428 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8DA1366D43; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:09:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:09:55 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Lucas Nussbaum Cc: questions@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: differences between 2-STABLE, 3-STABLE and 4-STABLE Message-ID: <20020111030954.A19114@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020111102201.GA5668@oxygene.in.schickler.net> <20020111023152.A18542@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020111110159.GA11801@oxygene.in.schickler.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020111110159.GA11801@oxygene.in.schickler.net>; from lucas@sicfa.org on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:01:59PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:01:59PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Unfortunately for you, I expect that you'll have problems fitting more > > modern versions in only 4MB (it likes to have at least 8MB). >=20 > I thought the only problem was to be able to make the kernel fit in only > 4 MB ram. For the rest, I think swapping will do it. > Wouldn't a customised kernel do the trick, with 3-STABLE, maybe ? > I remember installing 3-STABLE on a 8 MB system, with a GENERIC kernel. Well, it might fit, but it would probably swap like a bastard. I suppose it's worth a try! > I suppose it's a compiler's version problem, since 2.1.5 used gcc 2.6.3. No, it's more than that; there are probably ~30 different things which have changed incompatibly since then. The biggest of these is the binary format has changed from a.out to ELF, and the transitional change-over code in the system makefiles is no longer there. > Would a source upgrade like that work : > 2.1.5 -> 2-STABLE > 2-STABLE -> 3-STABLE <- possible stop here, since it would be a great > improvement ;) > 3-STABLE -> 4-STABLE > with maybe intermediate steps at 3.0 and 4.0 if direct upgrades from > n-stable to (n+1)-stable doesn't work ? You'd probably need to do this in about 6 or 8 separate upgrades and make worlds..it's really not worth doing it this way, especially on such a small and slow and machine. It would take literally months of compilation time. Kris --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8PsgBWry0BWjoQKURArhLAJ4p/vBQiZsKWs57qhkNhinJwImgLQCbBYgC rQ6/4QZRWK7pKSCzdgUwec0= =dKZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message