From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 04:03:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22766 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA22748 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:03:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk) Received: from froutopia.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:02:59 +0100 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: Doug White cc: Panos GEVROS , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting sources and building kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:37:04 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:02:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3542.905943775@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Panos GEVROS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White writes: |On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Panos GEVROS wrote: | |> is it possible to have all sources in only one "server" machine and use it * to |> upgrade another "remote" by letting the "remote" mount the "server"? |> (i NFS export /usr/src -maproot=root on the server) | |Yes. | |> i have upgraded the system from 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7 by 'makebuildworld' once on *the |> server and then |> on the "remote" : |> mount server:/usr/src /usr/src |> cd /usr/src |> make installworld |> that seems to have worked... |> |> |> |> i have difficulty with building a kernel though, |> on the "remote"!!: |> mount server:/usr/src /usr/src |> cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf |> /usr/sbin/config REMOTE-KERNEL |> cd ../../compile/REMOTE-KERNEL |> make depend |> make ... ... |> Error 1 |> at vnode_if.c (first file to cc) | |What error does it report? It's probably a permissions problem. sorry i should have mentioned this in the first place i receive several 'warnings' at vnode_if.c all like this : vnode_if.c:640: warning: excess elements in struct initializerafter `vop_vfree_desc` *** Error code 1 hope it is something obvious i'd rather avoid searching the code Panos | |> if i build the kernel on the "server" |> and on the "remote" just 'mount' 'cd' in the REMOTE-KERNEL compile directo *ry |> do 'make install' then it does not complain. | |Doug White | University of Oregon |Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant |http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message