Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:49:31 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> Cc: Rich Winkel <rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing quiescent fbsd machine via network for maintenance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812022047130.8008-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981203034619.562A-100000@ns.double-barrel.be>
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael C. Vergallen wrote: > What I do here is mount the servers / /usr /var and so on directories to > /mnt on the build machine and then do a make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt and > all gets installed in multiuser mode then I build a kernel for the servers > and do a make install for the kernel with the DESTDIR option set. then I > unmount the servers filesystems from the buildmachine and do a login to > the servers to issue the reboot command. I find this reduces the machines > downtime to about 2-3 minutes. Most users don't notice this or can put up > with it. Why not just mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from the build machine on the clients? Less machines need to be setup as NFS servers. > Michael > --- > Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, > Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ > B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ > Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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