Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:15:07 +0100 From: Peter McGarvey <pmcgarvey@vianetworks.co.uk> To: Peter Christie <christie@idsi.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Message-ID: <E17bhhX-000FrM-00@pooh.noc.u-net.net> In-Reply-To: <Infinity Data Systems WebMail-1.0.1-10285513133d4e7291d77f7@mail.idsi.net> References: <Infinity Data Systems WebMail-1.0.1-10285513133d4e7291d77f7@mail.idsi.net>
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* Peter Christie [Monday 05 August 2002 13:41 pm] > hey there ~ > > I tried CVSup'ing for the first time the other night and filled up my > /usr slice, guess I don't have the room for all the source code . . . > this was a binary only 4.2 installation Hmm, slice/partition naming problems. A slice is what MS calles a partition A partition is what you've called a slice But this always confuses me so don't worry about it. > > I don't think anything actually got updated (how can I tell for sure?) > but I'd like to delete all the source so as to go back to whence I came, > can I just delete everything under /usr/src ? Indeed, deleting /usr/src is not going to break a thing. > > and is there a way to CVSup binaries instead of source ? > Not that I'm aware of. But you can select UPGRADE from the main memu of sysinstall. If you've got a nice fat pipe grab a copy of the floppies and "install" from the net. -- TTFN, FNORD Peter McGarvey System Administrator Network Operations, VIA Networks UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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