Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:15:10 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade strategy Message-ID: <3B0EF58E.301374AC@DougBarton.net> References: <20010525134240.A15254@polands.org>
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Doug Poland wrote:
>
> Sorry for "yet another" upgrade question. I have a modest
> 80486 running 4.1.1-RELEASE who's purpose in life is
> gateway/NAT/ipfw. I did a "minimal" install.
>
> I want to upgrade this box to -STABLE. I have the latest
> sources and binaries built on a big, fast box on my network.
> I have successfully mounted my bigfastbox:/usr/src on
> smaller boxes and done make installworld.
>
> My question is: how do I get a "minimal" install on the 4.1.1
> box using this technique?
You don't. There is no equivalent to a minimal install from source, 'make
[install]world' installs the whole system. If you're short of disk space on
the '486 you should do another CD install to do the upgrade.
Good luck,
Doug
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