From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 26 13:47:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553A714BB7 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:47:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA20548; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:10:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:10:19 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Alexander Frolkin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world under Linux ? Message-ID: <20000126141019.G26520@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000126190620.A14811@gamma> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000126190620.A14811@gamma>; from alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:06:20PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Alexander Frolkin [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