Trying to make a mirror for a disconnected lab
I'm planning to build a lab of perhaps 15 freebsd machines. Not only do I want to be a good sysadmin and only download what I need, but another issue is that these machines will live on a network that will not have a reliable connection to the internet. Therefore I want to build a mirror of parts of ftp.freebsd.org so that the lead machine (for each of 2 architectures) can build packages for the other machines to install. I think that if I mirror: ports/distfiles releases/arch/version-RELEASE then I think I will be able to install FreeBSD on each machine and build packages of anything from ports that I want to install on all the machines. And then for each individual machine set PKG_PATH to be the nfs served location from the main server. Therefore to make my mirror, I have a rsync filter file that looks something like this: + /ports/ + /ports/distfiles/ + /ports/distfiles/* + /releases/ + /releases/i386/ + /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/ + /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/* + /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/base/ + /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/base/* etc. - * Hopefully, someone can give me confidence that this is a reasonable plan? Or am I going about this wrongheadedly? I have a question: Q. ports/distfiles contains tarballs of multiple versions of each software; I assume that I only need one version of each tarball. And since this mirror as described comes to ~100GiB, how can I modify my rsync filter so I don't get anything more than either the latest tarball for each software package in distfiles or whichever version accords to the Makefiles provided by ports.tgz Hopefully some of this detail will be of help to someone else in a similar position. -- Duncan Hutty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: about vbox and freebsd
Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-21 06:12, John Francis Lee wrote: My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that CPU doesn't support long mode Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem, and it seems to have to do with VM-X. I have no idea what that is, but a thread in which someone has a very similar issue is here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1t=19420 One notable quote is: ...[the CPU] does not have Intel VT (hardware virtualization), so you will not be able to run 64 bit guests in Virtualbox even though you run a 64 bit host. This CPU does support hardware virtualization as can be seen by the svm flag in the output of cpuinfo. It may be obvious but... Did you install the 64bit version of Ubuntu? uname -m will tell you. -- Duncan Hutty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
