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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.tek.com!usenet From: stevemw@secant.wv.tek.com (Stephen M. Wynne) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partial Mirror -> Install Date: 12 Mar 1997 22:32:44 -0800 Organization: Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR, USA Lines: 49 Message-ID: <uyorahks3n7.fsf@secant.wv.tek.com> References: <uyosp21sxve.fsf@secant.wv.tek.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: secant.wv.tek.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36955 stevemw@secant.wv.tek.com (Stephen M. Wynne) writes: > I'm currently at FreeBSD 2.1.0. I'm thinking of mirroring the parts I > want of one archive and then installing off of NFS afterward. How hard > is this to do? Since nobody had anything to say about my question, I decided to try this on my own :-) Here's my progress so far: 1. Find 1.0 GB of free disk somewhere (yes, I know it's not easy). 2. Login to ftp.freebsd.org and get a set of archives. Use the .tar.gz feature! (Note that ftp.freebsd.org isn't always able to send files completely somehow, and GNU wget(1) and Netscape may hang). Example: ftp> get 2.2-GAMMA.tar.gz 1. /pub/FreeBSD/N.N-NAME 2. /pub/FreeBSD/ports-N.N 3. /pub/FreeBSD/packages-N.N 4. /pub/FreeBSD/XFree86/N.N-NAME 5. /pub/XFree86/X.Y/binaries/FreeBSD-N.N 6. /pub/XFree86/X.Y/source 7. /pub/FreeBSD/tools 8. /pub/FreeBSD/docs 3. Unpack tar balls, remove tar balls. 4. Export that filesystem to your soon-to-be upgraded FreeBSD system. 5. Create floppies from the "floppies" directory in your release. 6. Boot off the floppy and use the NFS install! I decided to go for the 2.2-GAMMA because I'm just that adventurous! I'll be making a backup first, and probably removing all of my old files. Note: if anyone understands the symlinks outside the /pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 directory to /pub/XFree86/3.2/binaries/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-N.N, I'm curious what they're there for. Also, if anyone has had good luck with not removing old files and installing a new 2.2 release on top of a 2.1.x one, that would be interesting. Hope this helps someone someday. If I totally missed documentation for this, I'm sorry. I looked around and didn't see any... Steve P.S. I appreciate Walnut Creek's FTP site!