On 2005-10-26 08:29, N Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE through CD-ROM.
I used cvsup to sync my /usr/src directory to the latest STABLE tree.
The problem is that I had installed some distributions that I no
longer want to keep. Also, I don't need lpr (this can be disabled
through make.conf). So, is there a way to remove these files, before
I do 'make installworld'?
I did not find any information on this in the handbook.
The ``FreeBSD From Scratch'' article has some nice tips about doing
clean installations, which you may find interesting:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/
I don't use the scripts from that article, but you don't *HAVE* to use
them either. The last time I did this, I used a second partition as a
'temporary boot area'. I had the following original partitions:
/
/var
/usr
/home
Doing all my builds under /home/build as the 'build' user allows me to
boot from another disk, mount my original /home and install a new
snapshot with the following rough plan:
* Mount a spare partition with at least 200 MB of space under /mnt/new
* Install everything with make DESTDIR=/mnt/new installworld
* Backup user passwords and a few minor /etc configuration options
that I wanted to keep in /mnt/new/etc.tar.gz (i.e. user passwords,
network setup files, etc).
* Boot from the /mnt/new partition
* Restore my /etc files
* Wipe the old /, /var and /usr partitions with newfs
* Remount the 'original' /, /var and /usr partitions under /mnt/root
* Remount my original /home partition under /home (of the new disk)
* Install everything again in their final location with:
# cd /home/build/src
# env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/home/build/obj \
make DESTDIR=/mnt/root installworld
* Run mergemaster to merge the new configuration files in /mnt/root
with:
# env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/home/build/obj \
mergemaster -m /home/build/src/etc -D /mnt/root
* Set up the boot loader to boot from the 'original' root
That's _not_ a detailed guide and I may have forgotten some of the
details, since I'm typing this away from my notebook at home. It
may help you make your own plan though...
Regards,
Giorgos
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