Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:28:28 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Hurf Sheldon <hurf@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Stable from 4.1 CD-ROMS? Message-ID: <14847.18316.557325.670217@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <129116416@toto.iv>
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Hurf Sheldon <hurf@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> types: > Hi Folks, > Some questions re: FreeBSD installs. > I've just installed 4.1 from the CD-Rom dated August. Is that considered > the "stable"? We installed the "X with kernel sources" selection > with no extras save linux and 3.2 binary compatability. You just installed -release. -stable can be considered a stream of bug fixes/enhancements for -release. > During the install the disk format routine would only allow 4 partitions > (9gb SCSI on adaptec 2940) - anything further was given the device entry > "X" Are you referring to the things DOS calls partitions, which FreebSD calls slices; or the things FreeBSD calls partitions, which have no counterpart in DOS? If the former, then yes, you only get 4 slices. That's all the DOS allows, though it lets you create an "extension" slice that can hold other slices - which FreeBSD doesn't work with :-(. If the latter, then please provide more details - like what partitions you created, and what failed to create. > After boot and kernel rebuild (for dual cpus ), we can't mount the > CDROM for > additional package installs (from /stand/sysinstall) - we get the error > - - "bad super block" "bad super block" sounds like you're using the wrong file system type (or the CDROM is hosed). How are you trying to mount the cdrom? If you're letting them mount command pull things from /etc/fstab, what's in that file? And what have you already got mounted? > We have several FreeBSD systems, now spanning 3.2->4.1. I'm curious what > schemes people are using to keep a group of systems updated as > painlessly > as possible. There are 3 fronts: The system software, the packages and > the ports that we'd like to be able to keep synced among the systems. > What has been successful? Lots of things have been successful. Just maintaining them all by hand works, but is the most painful. Sharing things via NFS works quite well, especially for the ports/packages stuff. I maintain several systems by export /usr/src & /usr/obj, doing "make buildworld" on the fastest machine around, and "make installworld" on the others, though that requires coordinating /etc/make.conf. Some people find that rdist (or rsync) work quite well. It depends on how much commonality you want and how much interdependence you're willing to allow. Done right, one person can support hundreds of systems without being overworked - and all those methods have been used to do so. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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