From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 26 15:23:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pinky.plambert.net (pinky.plambert.net [205.219.88.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D488B14F66 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:23:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plambert@pinky.plambert.net) Received: (from plambert@localhost) by pinky.plambert.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA48376; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plambert) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:23:25 -0800 From: "Paul M . Lambert" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Alexander Frolkin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world under Linux ? Message-ID: <20000126152325.B42148@pinky.plambert.net> References: <20000126190620.A14811@gamma> <20000126141019.G26520@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000126141019.G26520@fw.wintelcom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 > Perhaps a basic install of FreeBSD under VMware might do it? --plambert -- I hate bombs, terrorism, fear, plans, future and past injustices, manifestos, popular sentiment, ignition, timetables, meetings, and poorly adjusted weasels. A warm hello to my friends and fans in domestic surveillance! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message