From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 1 03:11:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15472 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 03:11:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (rnocserv.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15452 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 03:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Received: from urc.ac.ru (y.RNOC-dialup.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.127]) by rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13890; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:10:11 +0500 (ES) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Message-ID: <363C4189.57365D34@urc.ac.ru> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 16:10:01 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Southern Ural Regional Center of FREEnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Shenton CC: Doug Russell , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make installworld over NFS References: <86iuh194iq.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Shenton wrote: > > My minibox is a lowly 486sx-16 or -33 with only 5MB RAM so building > the OS on it is out of the question. It's also at a lights-out ISP > site so getting to it physically is difficult. > > Any suggestions on how to do this when the minibox is a 28.8 POTS line > away? Would the NFS be reliable enough? > Yes mostly, but only TCP NFS. I did it many times. > It's currently at 2.2.1-RELEASE and I'd like to bring it up to 2.2-STABLE. > I don't remember, was there AMD in 2.2.1, anyway, it didn't support NFS over TCP before ~2.2.7. So you have to mount filesystems manually with -o tcp. Be careful and install the STABLE kernel first, before installing the whole distribution (just to have both kernel versions in case when installation is broken due to accidental line disconnect). -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message