From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Feb 17 12:50:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CCA37B814 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:50:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA74197; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:50:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200002172050.PAA74197@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:50:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Hank (Henry) Miller" Subject: RE: 3.4->4.0 update comments Cc: hank miller , freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message