Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:55:44 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org>, "akanwar@digitarchy.com" <akanwar@digitarchy.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patchlevels and FreeBSD source Message-ID: <200311262155.44975.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031126071017.GA27981@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <323910-22003113261956699@M2W053.mail2web.com> <20031126071017.GA27981@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 17:40, Daniel Lang wrote: > 1. CVSup and build the world on your install-server (or any > other NFS server) pre installation, NFS export > /usr/src and /usr/obj to all your clients. > During post-install, mount these directories and call > 'make installworld'. > This should take much less time and effort. This is probably the best solution for the problem (IMHO :) > 2. If you really want a installable CD image, you need to > build a release, cf. release(7). Beware, that make release > is a complicated process, that consumes a lot of ressources > and can take a long time. For "modern computers" this isn't really true any more. I have a 1Ghz K7 which does make release in 4 hours (after a buildworld) That doesn't include building ports which takes a fair amount longer, but that just depends what ports you actually want :) It takes up about 2.1Gb of space (including building about 300Mb worth of packages) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200311262155.44975.doconnor>