Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:30:27PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello Jerry, > > > Anyway, 256 MB should be plenty of space for / slash unless you > > are putting everything in it. > > My main mistake was that I had > makeoptionsDEBUG=-g > in the kernel config file. That made for a ~130M

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
"Zbigniew Szalbot" writes: > My main mistake was that I had > makeoptionsDEBUG=-g > in the kernel config file. That made for a ~130MB kernel so when I > compiled and tried to install a new one, it ran out of space (it would > be about 260 MB but I only had 242 MB). > > Many thanks for all you

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello Jerry, > Anyway, 256 MB should be plenty of space for / slash unless you > are putting everything in it. My main mistake was that I had makeoptionsDEBUG=-g in the kernel config file. That made for a ~130MB kernel so when I compiled and tried to install a new one, it ran out of space (it

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, >> Is it in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC ? > > Yes, it is, and is has the setting "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" included. > You could # this setting and build a GENERIC kernel without the > debug informations as described in the handbook about how to > compile a custom kernel (it doesn't matter

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13:32AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my > / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a > new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a different slice to > insta

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Powell
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13, Zbigniew Szalbot > wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my >> / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a > Actually it is 242MB I have one box wit

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:53:29 +0100, "Zbigniew Szalbot" wrote: > When I make the GENERIC kernel, I again run out of space (I still have > about 60MB free in /). So I guess the system is probably using the > same "makeoptionsDEBUG=-g" settings for the generic kernel. So my > question is where i

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my > / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a Actually it is 242MB > new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a differen