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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.stealth.net!news.ibm.net.il!news.biu.ac.il!news.huji.ac.il!usenet From: Pozin Shimon <pozin@math.tau.ac.il> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there an easy upgrade path Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:49:21 +0200 Organization: Tel Aviv University Lines: 42 Message-ID: <329B1181.ABD@math.tau.ac.il> References: <00001c8a+00004809@msn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: indy14.math.tau.ac.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Below is the answer of Jeorge on the same question I asked a while ago: ============cut here====================== As Pozin Shimon wrote: > > If you've got the 300 MB for the entire source tree (plus the .o > > files), you might want to do a `make world'. > > Do you want to say I have to FTP 300MB of "world"?! No. I just wanna say that you need ~ 300 MB of space for the _extracted_ sources and all the object files in order to rebuild a system from source (maybe 250 MB). The compressed source dist files are 28 MB. Of course, a CD-ROM is often the more comfortable (and cheaper) solution, in particular, you'll also get the ports' distfiles (as long as they are allowed to be sold on a CD-ROM) and the packages. -- cheers, J"org ============cut here======================== Turlough FitzPatrick wrote: > > Hi There, > > I have got 2.1R going with a couple of probelms, such as getting the > fonts sorted out(I've tried the fixes and something just isnt > clicking). Anyway I was wondering if it is an easy process to upgrade > from 2.1 to 2.1.5 or does it require a reinstillation. I had a lot of > trouble getting the cd-rom in so I would like to avoid starting from > scratch again. > > Cheers, > turlough -- Shimon Pozin pozin@math.tau.ac.il URL: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~pozin tel. 972-3-5659761 fax. 972-3-5659713