Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:05:18 +0200 From: Alex <freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building on seperate box? Message-ID: <7131268431.20020616220518@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <3D0C760B.3516.DA06150@localhost> References: <3D0C760B.3516.DA06150@localhost>
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Dear Corey, Sunday, June 16, 2002, 8:27:07 PM, you wrote: CS> I've seen some mention on this list of doing builds (like a make CS> world)on a seperate machine from the target system. Since in my case CS> the target is a 486 DX2/66 with 32 MB RAM and a pretty small hard CS> drive (it's a headless firewall box), I'm obviously interested in CS> being able to compile on a seperate machine. CS> How does one go about doing compilation on a seperate machine- in CS> particular, I'd like to know any pointers about building a kernel and CS> a doing a make world on a seperate machine. The answer to this question is written down in the handbook. (Only it the old way). The basic idee is: Follow the steps on how to make a world from the handbook. Do the buildworld & buildkernel on a NFS shared dir and the installkernel & installworld on the machine it self. CS> Also, how long does it take to do a make world? I've recompiled my CS> kernel twice on my 486 and it takes about 2-3 hours total, including CS> the "make depend" step. I shudder to think what it would take to CS> build the whole thing from source. I was planning on a second FreeBSD CS> box on a P90 with 32 MB RAM, but that's also for a firewall. I'm CS> thinking about installing FreeBSD on my PIII 550 in a seperate CS> partition just so I can do things like builds and so on for my other, CS> slower systems. It hard to answer this. But i think it would take 24h (with the default -O setting in you make.conf) and 8 hours with your PIII. The build part sould not put that much stress on your system if you execute it with a 'nice -20' just before it. CS> Thanks for any info and/or pointers. CS> Regards, CS> Corey Snow CS> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org CS> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook The mailing lists http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list How to get best results from the FreeBSD- questions mailing list http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Alternative: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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