Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD
Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep, that's pretty much right. Use one of the systems to build > everything as packages, and then install all those packages onto your > other machines. Or share them (e.g., by NFS), and build them on the individual machines. Or share them (e.g., by NFS), and build them on the master machine, then install on the other machines (just make sure you don't build them with optimizations that will break the other machines -- of course, this caveat also applies to building packages for those other machines). > You'll still need to compile the kernel and source on each individual machine. Or you could build the kernel and source on the master machine and share them (e.g., by NFS) to install on the other machines. Or use FreeBSD Update or something similar (e.g., you could put a simple version together with rsync). Or build your own releases on the master machine and let the other machines update to them via anonymous FTP. There are a huge number of possibilities, limited only by the amount of effort you're willing to put into them. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD
Yep, that's pretty much right. Use one of the systems to build everything as packages, and then install all those packages onto your other machines. You'll still need to compile the kernel and source on each individual machine. On Apr 6, 2005 4:18 PM, Iain Dooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi lowell, > > >The recommended path is to do a binary upgrade. 5.4 will be out in a > >few weeks, and release candidate builds are available now. > > to what extent does building the sources on my machine affect the resulting > binaries? to be more specific: > > i read the freebsd handbook section on maintaining multiple systems from one > 'build machine'. if i were to allocate one of the machines on my network to > build sources into binaries, say my HP PII, would those binaries be > appropriate to install on my thinkpad? my understanding is that i could take > a subset of those binaries and install them on my laptop, and then build the > kernel from the thinkpad and this would work (assuming i got all the > binaries right). is that correct? > > cheers > > iain > > _ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD
hi lowell, The recommended path is to do a binary upgrade. 5.4 will be out in a few weeks, and release candidate builds are available now. to what extent does building the sources on my machine affect the resulting binaries? to be more specific: i read the freebsd handbook section on maintaining multiple systems from one 'build machine'. if i were to allocate one of the machines on my network to build sources into binaries, say my HP PII, would those binaries be appropriate to install on my thinkpad? my understanding is that i could take a subset of those binaries and install them on my laptop, and then build the kernel from the thinkpad and this would work (assuming i got all the binaries right). is that correct? cheers iain _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD
"Iain Dooley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do i need to edit the Makefiles? how can i cvsup only those programs > in contrib that i need? my aim here is to have a compact source tree > that i can use cvsup to keep current, but only takes up a couple of > hundred meg. Doing this is not supported. One of FreeBSD's strong points is the fact that it *is* a whole operating system, not just a collection of pieces. That doesn't mean it's impossible -- lots of us are using partial subsets of the source tree for embedded projects -- but it does mean that anyone trying to do so are pretty much on our own. Your easiest path for a source upgrade is probably to do a remote mount of disk space over a network (beware security concerns...) and use that to hold a full source tree. It will be slow, but just leave it to do the build over the weekend and you should be set (or do the build itself on another machine, and just install from there). The recommended path is to do a binary upgrade. 5.4 will be out in a few weeks, and release candidate builds are available now. Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD
hi there, i'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Thinkpad 586, with a 1GB HDD and something like 48 MB of ram, with a pentium 133 processor. there is no CD drive, so i installed from floppies via FTP and selected 'minimal' installation, and didn't install any of the ports or src. i now want to upgrade to 5.3 (for various reasons) and i want to have a source tree that i can use to maintain my system via cvsup. in my stable-supfile, i commented out src-all, and then selected only the packages that i thought i would need. i commented out src-contrib, but this produced an error that make did not know how to build bool-array.cc. src-contrib is very large, and there are loads and loads of programs in there that i don't need for this machine (i am really only ever going to use the laptop to ssh into another computer on my network at home and from uni over the wireless network... it's just a portable terminal). i'm pretty confident that i could select what i need, (ie. i think i could go into contrib and select only the programs that i want to install) but i don't really know how to do it. do i need to edit the Makefiles? how can i cvsup only those programs in contrib that i need? my aim here is to have a compact source tree that i can use cvsup to keep current, but only takes up a couple of hundred meg. i'm not sure where to start. the handbook is usually a good place to start but i don't know the best section to look in. any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers iain _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
