From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 28 18:56:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519A837B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:56:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.196.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5BF43EA9 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:56:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (unknown [10.1.0.2]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1071351BF for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:56:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BD56328B09; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:56:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:56:18 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installworld with /src /obj on CDs Message-ID: <20021229025618.GA32448@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20021229111403.W434@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021229111403.W434@welearn.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:14:03AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > Does installworld work these days with read-only /src and/or /obj > filesystems? > > I want to upgrade a few isolated FreeBSD machines that have tiny disks. > My plan is to put each of /src and /obj on CDROMs, copy the contents > of one onto the hard disk (if it will fit!), and read the other from /mnt > as we go. > > In the past we were surprised to discover that one or both of these > filesystems had to be writeable for some tiny annoying reason which > I don't quite recall. > > The easiest thing would be if I could copy only a small necessary > part of /src to the hard disk, then have /obj read-only in the CD > drive... but now I'm getting too optimistic. This is how it is supposed to work. Every once in a while a bug is introduced into the build process that breaks this. These problems get fixed very quickly because there are a lot of us using read only NFS mounts of /usr/obj and /usr/src. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message