Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:23:13 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: near complete reinstall? Message-ID: <m11ssrt-000QjIC@hawkins.cba.uni.edu>
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I'm starting to think that it would be best to simply reinstall my
FreeBSD system from scratch. I don't remember all of the adjustments
I've had to make here and there, and there's some mild strangeness&
incompatibility from upgrading to stable and adding DHCP
(particlularly, loss of environmental variables when using SSH). And I
really don't think that /usr should be using 90% of its 2GB . . . even
after "make clan" in /usr/ports. Also, the default size of /var is way
to small if you regularly print 100 page postscript :)
I'm thinking that I'll stuff a tarball of /home somewhere, keep /etc /
and /usr/local/etc, and the configuration file for my kernel, then nuke
the whole thing. Is there anything I'm missing? I presume that the
stable 3 disk set now lets me install of DHCP (cable modem)?
Rick, getting ready to take the plunge.
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Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu
(319) 266-7114 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk
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