Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:10:19 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Alexander Frolkin <alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world under Linux ? Message-ID: <20000126141019.G26520@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000126190620.A14811@gamma>; from alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:06:20PM %2B0000 References: <20000126190620.A14811@gamma>
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* Alexander Frolkin <alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk> [000126 13:29] wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to 'make buildworld' on a Linux system? The reason I want to > do this is because my Linux machine is a lot faster than the FreeBSD > machine. Last time I made world, I had to use NFS, due to lack of disk > space, and it took three (!) days (using make -j3, which was probably a bad > idea). It this possible, and is there any info somewhere about how to do > this? Doing that would probably be pretty complex, I've never seen anyone claim success doing this on the mailing lists. You may be able to create a diskless configuration, boot the Linux box with a FreeBSD kernel, NFS mount the slower box and try building via NFS. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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