From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 16 11:27:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A13637B427 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:27:08 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.172]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.10.020) with SMTP id HUB36795 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:22:32 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:27:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Building on seperate box? Message-ID: <3D0C760B.3516.DA06150@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've seen some mention on this list of doing builds (like a make world)on a seperate machine from the target system. Since in my case the target is a 486 DX2/66 with 32 MB RAM and a pretty small hard drive (it's a headless firewall box), I'm obviously interested in being able to compile on a seperate machine. How does one go about doing compilation on a seperate machine- in particular, I'd like to know any pointers about building a kernel and a doing a make world on a seperate machine. Also, how long does it take to do a make world? I've recompiled my kernel twice on my 486 and it takes about 2-3 hours total, including the "make depend" step. I shudder to think what it would take to build the whole thing from source. I was planning on a second FreeBSD box on a P90 with 32 MB RAM, but that's also for a firewall. I'm thinking about installing FreeBSD on my PIII 550 in a seperate partition just so I can do things like builds and so on for my other, slower systems. Thanks for any info and/or pointers. Regards, Corey Snow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message