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Date:      Sun, 3 Jun 2001 22:33:33 -0500
From:      Doug Poland <dpoland@polands.org>
To:        Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Upgrade strategy
Message-ID:  <20010603223332.A2992@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <200106040135.VAA19931@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
References:  <007d01c0e57a$638cb330$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <200106040135.VAA19931@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:37:13PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2001 20:25:34 -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> 
> >> Doug Poland wrote:
> >> > I want to upgrade this box to -STABLE.  I have the latest
> >> > sources and binaries built on a big, fast box on my network.
> 
> >NOCRYPT=true
> >NOGAMES=true
> >NOSHARE=true
> >NOINFO=true
> >NOPROFILE=true
> >NOMAKE_KERBEROS4=true
> >NOMAKE_KERBEROS5=true
> >
> >This was almost enough so that I could a 'make installworld' on my little
> >486 firewall machine, which only has a 90MB /usr.
> 
> 
> Have about the following scenario.
> Isn't it possible to just do installworld on the smaller
> machine?
> He already can mount /usr/src, so he can add /usr/obj.
> I do this at work.
> 
> Moreover, my machines are simmilar enough that I have a common
> kernel so on the build machine I do the whole cycle and then on
> the client machine I only do Installworld, Installkernel and
> mergemaster. Just did it last saturday and it worked fine.
> 
Are you using the technique quoted above?  Matthew, is your 90MB /usr
the total size or the amount free?

Thanks for your help guys...

-- 

Regards,
Doug

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