From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Mar 12 15: 7:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E20B37B71A; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:07:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from ler-freebie.iadfw.net (ler-freebie.iadfw.net [206.66.13.221]) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/20010112/$Revision: 1.13 $) with SMTP id f2CN16I08217; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:01:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) From: Larry Rosenman Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:01:06 GMT Message-ID: <20010312.23010600@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: cputype=486 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Larry Rosenman , John Baldwin , qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3AAD53EA.F71920E8@cup.hp.com> References: <3AAD394D.49597B93@cup.hp.com> <20010312.21272700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD485E.272DF239@cup.hp.com> <20010312.22211700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD53EA.F71920E8@cup.hp.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2; Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/12/01, 4:55:38 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote=20 regarding Re: cputype=3D486: > Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > > > No, it isn't wrong. You basicly introduce a third machine into the= > > > equation: > > > > > 1. The build machine, > > > 2. The target machine, > > > 3. the install machine. > > > > > In your case 1 is incompatible with 3. We don't support that (yet?= ). > > > Make sure your installation machine is compatible with your build > > > machine. The best approach is to make you install machine the same= as > > > your build machine and install over NFS to the target machine. > > > > HOW? I always did it: > > > > make buildworld on the P-III > > make buildkernel on the P-III for the 486 > > mount the /usr/src and /usr/obj for the P-III on the 486 > > cd /usr/src on the 486, make installworld > > make installkernel > > mergemaster > > reboot > Yes, and you weren't using any P-III specific compilation options > before, right? > > how do I do this now? > Either: > 1. Don't build P-III optimized code for your P-III, > 2. Don't build on your P-III for non-pentium machines, > 3. Build on your i486 (much like 2), > 4. Mount the i486 root partition on you P-III and > do the install on your P-III. > Ad 4: it would be nice if we had some sort of staging. That way, the > install can be performed on the P-III. The staging area could then be > mounted by other machines and "installed". This could be as simple as > doing a > tar cf - ${STAGING_DIR} | (cd /; tar xf -) As I said, I lose the P-III optimizations while it's a host, or is there a variable to installworld that says ROOT is HERE...??? I think this needs to be rethought.... Or the CPUTYPE stuff needs to be removed from 4.3.=20 > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org > tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message