From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 4 11:27:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D362737B670 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e94IRUq05724; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:27:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <39DB7690.73B0C12F@thehousleys.net> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:27:28 -0400 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make installworld over NFS: supported? References: <9715869168.20001004202431@buz.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Hello, > I've been wondering if installworld over NFS is supported or not. Sometimes > it works, sometimes it doesn't (which is the case at the moment). I'd > really like this feature to have my servers upgraded easily as soon as an > important update gets released without needing to do cvsup/make > buildworld on each of the machines (what needs more CPU time/bandwith than > really needed for the task)... Any other approaches to solve this > problem are welcome as well, for sure. > I haven't had problems since the 2.2.x days with this. I currently have 4 active machines, 3 of them do installworld via nfs. cat: server make -j16 buildworld make installworld baby: workstation mount cat:/usr/src /usr/src mount cat:/usr/obj /usr/obj cd /usr/src ; make installworld egg: workstation mount cat:/usr/src /usr/src mount cat:/usr/obj /usr/obj cd /usr/src ; make installworld etc..... Jim -- Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to dumb users in front of smart terminals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message