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Date:      Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:31:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "make world" documented?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960726182935.224C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31F7BB95.7A5@gamespot.com>

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On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Ian Kallen wrote:

> After updating my source trees, I'm planning on running "make world" 
> -- at least that's my understanding of what's next in the upgrade 
> recipe.  

What are you upgrading from -> to?  If you are going to 2.1.5-RELEASE then
you can just pull the boot floppy and use the "Upgrade" item to update the
system.  

> Is "make world" documented? 

Building the whole system is something you want to avoid if you can,
especially if you haven't done it.  It requires upward of 500mb to pull
the whole sources, leaving room for the object files and the completed
binaries.  

> Among the benefits I hope to derive from upgrding, it's really
> important to me that sysinstall be updated -- the version on the 2.1 CD
> aparently has a bug in it that has prevented me from adding a second
> SCSI drive to the system, I'm told that the 2.1.5 upgrade will remedy
> this problem. 

Then just use the normal upgrade procedure.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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