From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 25 11:39:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11520 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.communique.no (www.communique.no [193.212.204.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA11431 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from are@communique.no) Received: (qmail 5068 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Aug 1998 18:49:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:49:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Are Bryne X-Sender: are@rune.communique.no To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 'make installworld' on empty machine (was: Making a local FreeBSD distribution?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Communique DA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mike Holling wrote: > > 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. > > Right, I am already doing that. The problem is with entirely new > machines that don't have any OS whatsoever on them. I tried asking for this feature on freebsd-conf (or -config ?) as a part of sysinstall a while ago. I received no replies. Isn't this feasible? It would sure be handy and a real time saver. Regards, Are Bryne Communiqué DA Phone: +47 22 44 33 99 Parkveien 51b E-mail: admin@communique.no N-0256 Oslo URL: http://www.communique.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message