From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 1 18:40:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA22296 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA22288 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:39:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00247; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:43:49 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:43:48 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: Warner Losh cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distributing binaries only? In-Reply-To: <199710012112.PAA26166@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i appreciate the help, thank you, you saved me a lot of fustration and time. i was kinda over emphisizing the time for a make world, but then i again i never did it on the machine. thanks again, -Alfred > make buildworld on a fast machine. Then NFS mount the /usr/src and > /usr/obj trees and do a make installworld on the 133 box. > > Also my 486 Dx2-66 did make world in about 12 hours, and I likely > could have dropped that down into the 8 hour range with the addition > of more disks, better mount point options, etc. I suspect that 2-3 > days is a little pessimistic, unless the machine has little memory. > > Warner >