Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:00:31 GMT From: Jacques <jacques@jacqro.com> To: hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: near complete reinstall? Message-ID: <199912010000.AAA12606@jacqro.com> In-Reply-To: <m11ssrt-000QjIC@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> References: <m11ssrt-000QjIC@hawkins.cba.uni.edu>
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Be _very_ careful with /etc. If you change the disk layout, and then untar your old /etc the system will not find the root disk, and will not boot. This can be fixed, but it's kinda ugly. (Been there, done that :( ) Jacques On November 30, 1999 Rick wrote: >I'm starting to think that it would be best to simply reinstall my >FreeBSD system from scratch. I don't remember all of the adjustments >I've had to make here and there, and there's some mild strangeness& >incompatibility from upgrading to stable and adding DHCP >(particlularly, loss of environmental variables when using SSH). And I >really don't think that /usr should be using 90% of its 2GB . . . even <after "make clan" in /usr/ports. Also, the default size of /var is way <to small if you regularly print 100 page postscript :) >I'm thinking that I'll stuff a tarball of /home somewhere, keep /etc / >and /usr/local/etc, and the configuration file for my kernel, then nuke >the whole thing. Is there anything I'm missing? I presume that the >stable 3 disk set now lets me install of DHCP (cable modem)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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