Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

2005-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep, that's pretty much right. Use one of the systems to build everything as packages, and then install all those packages onto your other machines. Or share them (e.g., by NFS), and build them on the individual machines. Or share them (e.g., by NFS),

Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

2005-04-06 Thread Iain Dooley
hi lowell, The recommended path is to do a binary upgrade. 5.4 will be out in a few weeks, and release candidate builds are available now. to what extent does building the sources on my machine affect the resulting binaries? to be more specific: i read the freebsd handbook section on

Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

2005-04-06 Thread Pat Maddox
Yep, that's pretty much right. Use one of the systems to build everything as packages, and then install all those packages onto your other machines. You'll still need to compile the kernel and source on each individual machine. On Apr 6, 2005 4:18 PM, Iain Dooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi

Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Iain Dooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do i need to edit the Makefiles? how can i cvsup only those programs in contrib that i need? my aim here is to have a compact source tree that i can use cvsup to keep current, but only takes up a couple of hundred meg. Doing this is not supported. One

Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

2005-04-04 Thread Iain Dooley
hi there, i'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Thinkpad 586, with a 1GB HDD and something like 48 MB of ram, with a pentium 133 processor. there is no CD drive, so i installed from floppies via FTP and selected 'minimal' installation, and didn't install any of the ports or src. i