Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 06:46:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320064530.20071V-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980319220116.428B-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Charles Owens wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, jack wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Tom wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > > > > > Not knocking this, but I've expressed concern over one upgrade problem > > > ... > > > > on a machine that was freshly installed using the same BETA, the disk > > > > label editor comes up blank. If you quit out of the label editor at > > > > > > That method of upgrades is probably rarely tested. Most people use > > > installworld upgrades (I do). Much faster and painless than sysinstall > > > upgrades. > > > > When you've got nearly a dozen boxes to upgrade, some without the > > disk space to make world, upgrade installs from one machine are > > the way to go. > > I have this same situation, but I do 'make world' on _one_ machine, > then run 'make reinstall' on all others with /usr/src and /usr/obj > NFS-mounted from the build machine. > > The best of both worlds, as I see it. The ability to keep up to date on > all boxes while keeping disk requirements as low as possible. I just do a 'make buildworld' on one machine, NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj, then 'make installworld' on all the machines. Works fine so far. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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