Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:50:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Hank (Henry) Miller" <millerh@anubis.network.com> Cc: hank miller <hank@black-hole.com>, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: 3.4->4.0 update comments Message-ID: <200002172050.PAA74197@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000217141809.23317A-100000@comet>
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On 17-Feb-00 Hank (Henry) Miller wrote:
>
> attempted to update my system from 3.4 to 4.0, and have not had success.
>
>
> Started with CVSUP,
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> rebooted to single user - so far so good.
> make installworld This failed with something in install-info. I'm not
> sure that this isn't something leftover in the CVS tree on my system or a
> bug, if nobody else sees it I'll assume something myfault. (Unfortunatly
> it scrolled off the screen as each makefile failed, and I can't remember
> the process to pile stderr to a file.
Just do a make -DNOINFO installworld at this point. It's a known issue.
Once that is done, do a full make installworld. Don't forget to update
/dev, /etc/fstab, and your boot blocks ('disklabel -B ad0') as well.
> Went with plan of attack two: build two disks with the feb 14 snapshot.
> ran out of space on /
> hmm... deleted all the old kernels around, since they shouldn't work
> anyway. 4 kernels and a few small misc files, and I'm stuck.
>
> Now I'll grant that / is not big on my system (30 meg? more then 20, not
> more then 35) but / then / shouldn't need to be big. I only used 68% of /
> before. /usr, /usr/local, and /var are different partitions with plenty of
> space. (also several non-OS partitions)
>
> Are files in / really that much bigger then 3.x? If so it should be
> documented since I'm sure I'm not the only one with a small / partition.
In 3.4, and in -current, the defualt sizes in sysinstall when you use
auto defaults for all is 50 meg for /. You were almost done with the
upgrade, you only have 2 steps or so to go.
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