Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:02:01 +0100 From: "Jack Raats" <jack@jarasoft.net> To: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying kernel and OS Message-ID: <005201c5fbbc$e89db440$9700000a@jarasoft.net> References: <002701c5fb72$ee18bf90$9700000a@jarasoft.net> <43975426.9050809@math.missouri.edu>
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Is it also possible to scp both directories to the slow machine? JAck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: "Jack Raats" <jack@jarasoft.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:29 PM Subject: Re: Copying kernel and OS > Jack Raats wrote: >> I've two machines running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. >> One very fast machine and one very very slow machine. On the fast machine >> I can compile a new kernel and OS very quickly and easily. >> Is it possible to transfer the compile world and kernel to the slow >> machine. If yes whart directories etc... do i have to transfer. >> >> Jack > > I do something like this. I build on the fast machine, and then use NFS > to allow the slow machine to access /usr/src and /usr/obj. I have found > that it is important to preserve the names of the directories, so that > they are also called /usr/src and /usr/obj on the slow machine. Then I > just do mergemaster, make installworld, make installkernel (in the > appropriate order) on the slow machine, and it works like a charm. > > The entries in fstab are like this: > hub2:/usr/obj /usr/obj nfs rw,bg,noauto 0 0 > hub2:/usr/src /usr/src nfs rw,bg,noauto 0 0 > where hub2 is the name of the fast machine. > > In /etc/exports on hub2 I have something like this > /usr -maproot=root -alldirs -network 10.0.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 > (here 10.0.0.0 is the IP addresses of my LAN) > > and in /etc/rc.conf on hub2 I have some lines like > nfs_server_enable="YES" > rpcbind_enable="YES" > > Then on the slow machine I simply type > mount /usr/src > mount /usr/obj > > -- > > Stephen Montgomery-Smith > stephen@math.missouri.edu > http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen >
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