From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 1 15:37:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496A937B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01790; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:37:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA02945; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:37:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010012237.QAA02945@harmony.village.org> To: Ken Bolingbroke Subject: Re: No UPDATING for RELENG_3? Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:59:43 PDT." References: Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:37:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Ken Bolingbroke writes: : I didn't do a binary upgrade, I cvsup'd RELENG_3_2_0. The machine in : question doesn't have either a CD or floppy drive, and it also only has : 8 meg of RAM, all of which make binary upgrading a bit difficult. : Otherwise, I'd have wiped the machine and installed 4.1.1 fresh. Ah. You might have a problem with not enough swap. I've had excellent luck building on a "fast" machine and doing multiple installs on remote machines. make installworld -k is what I normally do. Why -k? Because sometimes the *@(#%@!#$^$ libncurses wants to regenerate symbolic links in /usr/obj :-(. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message