Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:02:55 +0200 From: Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting sources and building kernels Message-ID: <3542.905943775@cs.ucl.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:37:04 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809121336230.19785-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White writes: |On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Panos GEVROS wrote: | |> is it possible to have all sources in only one "server" machine and use it * to |> upgrade another "remote" by letting the "remote" mount the "server"? |> (i NFS export /usr/src -maproot=root on the server) | |Yes. | |> i have upgraded the system from 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7 by 'makebuildworld' once on *the |> server and then |> on the "remote" : |> mount server:/usr/src /usr/src |> cd /usr/src |> make installworld |> that seems to have worked... |> |> |> |> i have difficulty with building a kernel though, |> on the "remote"!!: |> mount server:/usr/src /usr/src |> cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf |> /usr/sbin/config REMOTE-KERNEL |> cd ../../compile/REMOTE-KERNEL |> make depend |> make ... ... |> Error 1 |> at vnode_if.c (first file to cc) | |What error does it report? It's probably a permissions problem. sorry i should have mentioned this in the first place i receive several 'warnings' at vnode_if.c all like this : vnode_if.c:640: warning: excess elements in struct initializerafter `vop_vfree_desc` *** Error code 1 hope it is something obvious i'd rather avoid searching the code Panos | |> if i build the kernel on the "server" |> and on the "remote" just 'mount' 'cd' in the REMOTE-KERNEL compile directo *ry |> do 'make install' then it does not complain. | |Doug White | University of Oregon |Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant |http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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