Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:43:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installworld from read-only fs? (was 'Making a local FreeBSD distribution?') Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980825113636.18651B-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980825103043.A6223@iii.co.uk>
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 03:02:19PM -0400, Mike Holling wrote: > > I have a machine tracking -stable, and use it to keep other machines in > > synch. I now have several new machines that don't have anything installed > > on them yet. Rather than installing a SNAP or an older version from CD > > and then upgrading to stable, I'd like to netinstall locally from the > > -stable server. > > If your machines can NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from the machine > that's tracking -stable, you can then run 'make installworld' on the > other machines, and not need to bother with needing to roll your own > release. By the way... is it really necessary that the installworld process be done from a writable /usr/src and /usr/obj ? I'd really like to be able to export these filesystems as read-only. It seems like an unnecesary security risk to have to give all of my servers write access to the master OS install image on my build server. Last time I briefly looked into this it seemed as though during installworld a few files got compiled, though it seemed like minor stuff. Is there an option to make the installworld process only _read_ from /usr/src and /usr/obj? If not, would this be fairly easy to add, or would it require to much reworking? Thanks, Charles > > This may be preferable (it's considerably less effort). > > See the tutorial at > > <URL:http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html>; > > for more details (question 12.5 in particular). > > N > -- > --+==[ Nik Clayton becomes Just Another Perl Contractor in 18 days. ]==+-- > She's still dead. Deal with it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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