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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling 2.2-current
Date: 12 Jun 1996 00:17:04 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <0v20jmvnu6.fsf@csmd42.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>,
Roland Jesse <jesse@hppool.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
>roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert):
>
>> I remind everyone that using a 2.2  kernel with 2.1  userland is not a good
>> idea as some internal structures  have changed and  switching to 2.2 should
>> be complete (kernel and user-land).
>
>Hhm, but how much space is needed for this ? I have only a 200MB partition free 
>for building a 2.2-snap. Is there a way to fiddle around with this ?

Sorry, but that's only just sufficient for the (uncompiled) source.
The only bit of "fiddling" I can think of is to get hold of another
disk and mount it on /usr/src or /usr/obj.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG