From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 6 3:17:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moon.harmonic.co.il (moon.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7834A37B502 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 03:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by moon.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA11096; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:15:25 +0200 To: Bap Subject: Re: stable on multiple machines Message-ID: <970827325.39dda63d55e63@webmail.harmonic.co.il> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:15:25 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200010060938.KAA64845@ns.a1.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200010060938.KAA64845@ns.a1.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Bap : > Can anyone tell me the best way of doing the following: > > I have 3 machines - 2 faily decent, and a 486DX2 66, 16M, 230M HDD ( > just got a 500M to add to it! ) > > The 486 has been sitting as a dialup gw for a couple of years running > 2.2.6-RELEASE ( have never had any problems ) > I am going to get a permenant connection to the net using a 56k modem so > thought it was about time I upgraded to track STABLE on the router. > > I know I can cvsup and build sources on my best machine, then NFS mount > and install on the other decent machine. > > What is the best way of doing this for the 486, as it will obviously > need the absolute minimum install to fit comfortably? > > Thanks for any ideas, > Bap. I don't see point in upgrading a perfectly working machine. Anyway, 4.x seems to be more memory hungry, so 3.5.1 might be a better option for you. --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message