From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 06:03:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6901A16A41F; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 06:03:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jack@jarasoft.net) Received: from orac.jarasoft.net (raats.xs4all.nl [80.126.151.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A9643D86; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 06:02:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jack@jarasoft.net) Received: from orac.jarasoft.net (localhost.jarasoft.net [127.0.0.1]) by orac.jarasoft.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBB311522; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:02:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from jara3 (unknown [10.0.0.151]) by orac.jarasoft.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F881142F; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:01:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005201c5fbbc$e89db440$9700000a@jarasoft.net> From: "Jack Raats" To: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" References: <002701c5fb72$ee18bf90$9700000a@jarasoft.net> <43975426.9050809@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:02:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: FreeBSD Stable , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying kernel and OS X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jack Raats List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:03:15 -0000 Is it also possible to scp both directories to the slow machine? JAck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" To: "Jack Raats" Cc: ; "FreeBSD Stable" 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 >