From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 00:03:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD08316A41F for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:03:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C79143D48 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:03:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7E0C36F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:03:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03056-05 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:03:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF48FBFB0 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:03:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450793D3B for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:02:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:02:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <434EBD73.21640.81DF45B2@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Subject: cross platform building under emulation X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:03:02 -0000 My usual practice when building world is to do it once on the fastest box I have, then do installs via NFS mounts. I need to do this for FreeBSD 4.*, 5.*, 6.*, and -current. My goal is to do all this with just one box. At first I thought of multi-booting the box. Tonight at the OCUUG meeting , someone mentioned doing this with emulation. After hearing that, multi- booting doesn't sound as good. The box in question is an AMD 64 3000+ with 1GB of RAM. The m/b is a KV8E Deluxe, which gives me the option of onboard RAID-1 SATA. What do you think of this idea? What tools would you suggest? The host enviroment will also be used as my main database server running FreeBSD 6, most likely in AMD mode. Thanks. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/