On Thursday 12 June 2008, fbsd2 wrote: > Greetings list, > > Given recent EOL announcements, I'm trying to upgrade an ancient > machine from 5.5 to 7. It has 80 Mb total in the root partition, > /home/, /var/, /usr/, and /tmp/ on other partitions, and NFS mounts > /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports from a slightly newer/faster > box. I've seen > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html and > http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=121278826119286&w=2 > > which seem to suggest that even with INSTALL_NODEBUG during > buildkernel, 7 might not fit in an 80 Mb /. Must I partition a new > disk to give more space to /, or can I find more space by deleting > /stand/, /modules/, and possibly /rescue/ to shoehorn a custom 7.x > kernel in the available space? TIA It should fit, though you may have issues with kernel.old pushing you over the limit.
-- Anish Mistry
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