From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu Feb 28 0:11: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from pianosa.catch22.org (pianosa.catch22.org [64.81.48.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7352F37B402 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by pianosa.catch22.org (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E068679; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:11:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:11:02 -0800 From: Danny Howard To: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" Cc: Koroush Saraf , freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions Message-ID: <20020228001102.K3896@pianosa.catch22.org> References: <20020227095221.F3896@pianosa.catch22.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tholmes@thebiz.net on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:45:00PM -0500 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu 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 On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ] wrote: > > 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. Sh!t happens. Measure twice, cut once. I'd have a couple of boxes reserved for guinea pig testing, myself. I've found that installworld from multiple machines over NFS works, but there's danger any time you're upgrading the OS. > 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 :) Yes, network booting is da bomb, and that is how I'd prefer to maintain 34 workstations. :) -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message