From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 12 5:54:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hamberg.it.uu.se (hamberg.it.uu.se [130.238.9.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7232837B403 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 05:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by hamberg.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA10789; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:50:45 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:50:45 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Thomas Fiebig Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Concerning FAQ 19.4.15.5 of Handbook Message-ID: <20011012145044.A1675@student.uu.se> References: <3BC6E46D.38778C47@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BC6E46D.38778C47@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>; from tfie@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:39:09PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:39:09PM +0200, Thomas Fiebig wrote: > Hi, > > to that (see subject) question I have another one: > If my master machine is a Pentium I (586i) and my slave machine is a > 486i, is this method also possible? My make buildworld on the 486i with > mounted sources lasts now for about 48 hours! :-( (Just using paragraph numbers when referring to sections in the handbook or FAQ is a bad idea since they are sometimes renumbered.) Yeah, sure that works fine. Just make sure that /etc/make.conf are identical on both machines, or at least that the slave will not try to install anything that was not built. > > If this is possible, my future procedure will be: > > - 'make buildworld' on the master machine > - mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj to the slave > - change to /usr/src on the slave machine > - 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=MY_KERNEL' if there are changes in the > kernel This step can also be done on the master. > - 'make installkernel KERNCONF=MY_KERNEL' if there are changes in the > kernel Possibly a reboot into single user mode here. Usually works fine without. > - 'make installworld' on the slave machine > > Is this right??? > Sounds right. Just remember to run mergemaster also to update /etc -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message