Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:07:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: william woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: NFS Mounted /usr/src make world.... Message-ID: <19990923140700.T42271@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <99092221114902.03284@freebsd.cybcon.com> References: <99092220485401.03284@freebsd.cybcon.com> <19990923133414.S42271@freebie.lemis.com> <99092221114902.03284@freebsd.cybcon.com>
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On Wednesday, 22 September 1999 at 21:10:44 -0700, william woods wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote: >> On Wednesday, 22 September 1999 at 20:44:59 -0700, william woods wrote: >>> I have a system here where the disk is a bit small to hold both /usr/src and >>> /usr/obj after a make world, but I have aneother system with a very large Hard >>> drive. >>> >>> What I want to do Is mount the /usr/src and /usr/obj from system #1 via NFS on >>> system #2 and do a make world for system #2. Does that make sence? >> >> Well, that's the way I do it for my test machines. >> >>> If so, how would I do this. >> >> I'm not sure I understand the question. You've just described how to >> do it. Specifically, though, I mount a drive /src on all machines, >> and then create a symlink /usr/src -> /src. You have two choices with >> /usr/obj: >> >> 1. Don't create it, or let it be a directory. The objects will be >> stored on the local machine. This is a lot faster than putting >> everything on NFS, but you'll need about 220 MB free. >> >> 2. Put it on the remote machine. /usr/obj might point to /src/obj, >> which doesn't need to exist. > > Guess I need to explain myself better...that is WHAT I want to do, but HOW do I > set up NFS connections..... You create mount points on the client machine, export the file systems on the server machine (see exports(5)), then do: # mount server:/src /src More details in the online handbook. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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