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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:37:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: mounting sources and building kernels
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Panos GEVROS wrote:

> is it possible to have all sources in only one "server" machine and  use it to 
> upgrade another "remote" by letting the "remote" mount the "server"? 
> (i NFS export /usr/src -maproot=root on the server)

Yes.

> i have upgraded the system from 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7 by 'makebuildworld' once on the 
> server and then 
> on the "remote" :
> 	mount server:/usr/src /usr/src
> 	cd /usr/src
> 	make installworld
> that seems to have worked...
> 
> 
> 
> i have difficulty with building a kernel though,
> on the "remote"!!:
> 	mount server:/usr/src /usr/src
> 	cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> 	/usr/sbin/config REMOTE-KERNEL
> 	cd ../../compile/REMOTE-KERNEL
> 	make depend
> 	make ... ...
> 		Error 1 
> 		at vnode_if.c (first file to cc)

What error does it report?  It's probably a permissions problem.

> if i build the kernel on the "server" 
> and  on the "remote" just 'mount' 'cd' in the REMOTE-KERNEL compile directory 
> do 'make install' then it does not complain.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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