Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:02:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Matt Bettinger" <mattb@finsyn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld from cd Message-ID: <14842.9666.591470.115502@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <25406496@toto.iv>
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Matt Bettinger writes: > Can i just cp -r /cdrom/* /usr/src (on the 4.1 Release computer and then > build world like that ? or can i do it some way without copying the files > over and buildworld straight from the cd..? That should work, but isn't necessarily the fastest way to do things. > I tried to cp -r /cdrom/* /usr/src and got alot fo erros saying something > about dates and copy_big ... That sounds like your CDROM may have problems. Try the following: # mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom # use your device and mount points # diff -r /cdrom /usr/src # Adjust /cdrom to the src tree copy If that generates problems, then your cdrom has problems, and you'll need to create another. Once you have a good cdrom, you can also just mount the cdrom as /usr/src (if the top of the tree is /usr/src), cd to /usr/src (which is now on the CDROM), and do the make there. I have no idea which is faster. A third alternative is to use NFS. I have two machines, one fairly crunchy (dual Xeons) and the other not (single K6-2). I build on the crunchy machine, and export /usr/src and /usr/obj read-only. The K6 box mounts /usr/src and /usr/obj over the net, and just installs the built objects over the net. Being able to save the longer of the two build times more than makes up for doing an install over the net. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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