Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:13:36 +0000 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: patton@sysnet.net (Matthew Patton), John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: tcole@nihilist.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLUTION! 2.2.6-Release to -current Message-ID: <199807101013.DAA22643@mailgate.cadence.com> In-Reply-To: <199807100843.SAA27370@cimlogic.com.au> References: <l03110703b1c876232419@[192.168.1.10]> from Matthew Patton at "Jul 8, 98 08:02:49 pm"
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> Matthew Patton wrote: > > To think I went through all this pain just to get a SMP kernel so I can > > crack rc5des faster. My word of advice: if you want SMP, save yourself the > > hassle and start with a -current snapshot. *whew* > > *Grumble*. Today I went though the exercise of installing 2.2.6-RELEASE > from the CD that WC ships. I booted from the install CD, used the > visual thingy to deselect all the hardware I don't have (leaving > just ide/fd controllers, par/ser ports, ed0) and did a novice > install. I gave it the whole disk (wd0), let it use the default > partitions, and selected just the user binaries. I created one group > and one user, set the timezone and root password, rebooted, logged > in as root, NFS mounted /usr/src from another machine. Then I did > exactly as I have been advising people to do: > > cd /usr/src > make -m /usr/src/share/mk world > > I sat and watched it do the complete build without error. No need to > set BINFORMAT or MACHINE_ARCH. No editing /etc/make.conf. No > specially installing mk files. No rebuilding just libc. No secret > handshake. No rocket science. Just a simple make. > To echo and reinforce that this works I did the following a couple of weeks ago whilst setting -current up on a spare MB. vanilla 2.2.6 relase from the CDs checked out -current source from CD2 into /bigdisk/current cvsup'd the tree cd /bigdisk/current/src make -m `pwd`/share/mk buildworld make DESTDIR=/smalldisk -m `pwd`/share/mk installworld mkdir -p /smalldisk/usr/src/sys pax'd sys into /smalldisk/usr/sys chroot'd to /smalldisk cd /sys/i386/conf configure GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend make all make install (this is from memory, but the buildworld certainly was done as advertised). I then took out smalldisk from my big machine and put it onto an old 486 MB, and turned it and booted -current. Since then I've done NFS re-installs via PLIP (I have three network cards, at least two are dead :-(). Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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