Re: How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?
Darren Pilgrim wrote: From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:09AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim probably wrote: What do I need to us to accomplish the above? man release. Is there a way to skip the build portions of `make release` and just create the distributions and ISOs with what's already built? I typically use: setenv CVSROOT foo time make -DNOPORTS -DNODOC -DMAKE_ISOS release CHROOTDIR=/usr/release EXTSRCDIR=/usr/src /tmp/release.out This presumes you've already done a buildworld in /usr/src; it will also use that version of the source code, rather than pulling everything down from the CVS server. Because of the way the release process uses a chroot environment, it's still going to have to re-build everything. So, it's quite a time-intensive operation no matter how many shortcuts you take. chris. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?
From: Chris Vance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren Pilgrim wrote: From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:09AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim probably wrote: What do I need to us to accomplish the above? man release. Is there a way to skip the build portions of `make release` and just create the distributions and ISOs with what's already built? I typically use: setenv CVSROOT foo time make -DNOPORTS -DNODOC -DMAKE_ISOS release CHROOTDIR=/usr/release EXTSRCDIR=/usr/src /tmp/release.out This presumes you've already done a buildworld in /usr/src; it will also use that version of the source code, rather than pulling everything down from the CVS server. Because of the way the release process uses a chroot environment, it's still going to have to re-build everything. So, it's quite a time-intensive operation no matter how many shortcuts you take. I ended up creating FreeSBIE auto-install CDs with some scripts to do the disk layout, installworld/kernel and copy over the configuration. It worked very well. I just sat there, jockeyed discs and watched the scroll. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?
[Private email redirected back to list] From: 3BSD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:21:09 -0700, Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a number of machines onto which I want to install a custom-built world, kernel and set of packages, all of which have been built on another machine. The target machines presently have no OS on them and can only be booted by CD. How similar are those machines hardware wise? Because if they are really similar, you could use an imaging utility such as norton ghost to replicate one install on any number of machines, provided their hardware is similar, but if you use a Generic kernel, I'd imagine you don't even need the machines to be that similar at all. That doesn't solve the problem, though. I would still need to install the OS onto at least one machine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?
On Monday 19 July 2004 03:32 pm, Darren Pilgrim wrote: [Private email redirected back to list] From: 3BSD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:21:09 -0700, Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a number of machines onto which I want to install a custom-built world, kernel and set of packages, all of which have been built on another machine. The target machines presently have no OS on them and can only be booted by CD. How similar are those machines hardware wise? Because if they are really similar, you could use an imaging utility such as norton ghost to replicate one install on any number of machines, provided their hardware is similar, but if you use a Generic kernel, I'd imagine you don't even need the machines to be that similar at all. That doesn't solve the problem, though. I would still need to install the OS onto at least one machine. So are you saying that the custom world and kernel are not the system in use on the computer on which they exist? Assuming you've already edited the configuration files (/etc/rc.conf, /etc/fstab, etc): 1. Could you take the harddrives out of the destination computers, mount them on the source computer, and copy the system onto the hard drives? 2. Couldn't you use a live cdrom distribution (Freesbie, Knoppix, BBC Linux, etc) to boot the machine, setup networking, mount the hard drive and transfer (ftp, nfs, rsync, etc) the custom system to the new computer? Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?
From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 19 July 2004 03:32 pm, Darren Pilgrim wrote: [Private email redirected back to list] From: 3BSD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:21:09 -0700, Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a number of machines onto which I want to install a custom-built world, kernel and set of packages, all of which have been built on another machine. The target machines presently have no OS on them and can only be booted by CD. How similar are those machines hardware wise? Because if they are really similar, you could use an imaging utility such as norton ghost to replicate one install on any number of machines, provided their hardware is similar, but if you use a Generic kernel, I'd imagine you don't even need the machines to be that similar at all. That doesn't solve the problem, though. I would still need to install the OS onto at least one machine. So are you saying that the custom world and kernel are not the system in use on the computer on which they exist? Is the build machine part of the build set? No. Assuming you've already edited the configuration files (/etc/rc.conf, /etc/fstab, etc): 1. Could you take the harddrives out of the destination computers, mount them on the source computer, and copy the system onto the hard drives? The target machines will be using UFS2. The build machine runs 4.9. 2. Couldn't you use a live cdrom distribution (Freesbie, Knoppix, BBC Linux, etc) to boot the machine, setup networking, mount the hard drive and transfer (ftp, nfs, rsync, etc) the custom system to the new computer? No version of Linux is going to have the programs or environment to run installworld. I spoke with one of the FreeSBIE people (Drizzt) and s/he said a FreeSBIE CD would have the necessary tools for installing via makeworld so that looks like a good option. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?
From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:09AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim probably wrote: What do I need to us to accomplish the above? man release. Is there a way to skip the build portions of `make release` and just create the distributions and ISOs with what's already built? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
