From owner-freebsd-cluster Wed Feb 27 19:45:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx4.thebiz.net (mx4.thebiz.net [216.238.0.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F24A37B421 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:45:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 49269 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2002 22:45:00 -0500 Received: from unknown (172.16.0.80) by mx4.backend.thebiz.net with QMQP; 27 Feb 2002 22:45:00 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO staff.noc.thebiz.net) (216.238.1.10) by mail.thebiz.net with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 22:45:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:45:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" X-Sender: tholmes@staff.noc.thebiz.net To: Danny Howard Cc: Koroush Saraf , freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions In-Reply-To: <20020227095221.F3896@pianosa.catch22.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > NFS? I'd mount 4.5-RELEASE /usr/src on all these machines, make > buildworld and buildkernel, then write a script that goes to each in > turn installs both. Maybe put the procedure in an install.sh and do > like this: Are you saying to buildworld on each seperate machine with having just the src code nfs mounted? Or build on 1 machine and then installworld on each machine? If it is the latter, I've had problems the 2 times I've tried that. It could be differences in the machines I guess. It always seems to bomb with something like "command install not found" halfway through. The last time this happened was upgrading my packardbell p75 running 4.3-RELEASEp15 to 4.5-RELEASE from my AMDK2 500. It got hosed really bad and left me with a mess, almost unbootable. I then grabbed sysinstall from my 4.5-RELEASE box and then ran it on the 4.3box and did a binary upgrade, which worked really well. I never really investegated this since it is my home boxes and also the fact that I've never had a problem (knock wood) just cvsuping and then doing make world. In our production work environment we have a set of master servers and everything else are diskless clients of the masterservers. Services are "sandboxed" so that too makes life easier :) ________________ http://www.BiznessOnline.com ________________ Thomas Holmes Bizness Online Unix Systems Engineer Suite 1801 tholmes@thebiz.net 11 North Pearl St. (518) 533-6522 Albany, NY, 12207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message