Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:48:11 -0700 From: James Long <list@ns.museum.rain.com> To: Jason Cribbins <freebsdlist@kibserv.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world lasts longer than the energizer bunny Message-ID: <20020425124811.A3066@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>; from freebsdlist@kibserv.org on Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0400 References: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>
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> This is a keyboardless box (something fried on motherboard long ago) that I > had to initiate the make world through telnet on a windoze box. If I had > know it was going to take this much time I would have telneted from another > freebsd box. My windoze machines typically need to be rebooted every few > days to clean up memory leaks. > I might be in trouble here. Tip 1: run the make in the background. For instance I have a script called /root/mbw which does a little prep, and the "make buildworld" step. I invoke it thusly: /root/mbw >mbw.out 2>&1 & That makes /root/mbw run, sending its standard output and standard error to mbw.out, and runs it in the background, so that I don't have to keep the ssh (or telnet) session active for the duration of the make. To check the progress, inspect mbw.out, perhaps with tail -f mbw.out Tip 2: I haven't done a lot of build worlds, but by the procedure I use, at some point, you're going to have to log in directly on the console of the keyboardless box. If you have it set up to use a serial console to bypass the non-functional keyboard interface which I am inferring, that will work, but the make installword is best done in single-user mode, when telnet/ssh are not at your disposal. I would think a 486 with a fried keyboard interface would be worth about the same as a first-class postage stamp. Perhaps you could upgrade to a P90 or better? They're cheap also, probably will mount in the same case, and might even use the same 72-pin RAM, if your 486 uses 72-pin memory. Listen to Kris on time estimates. My PII-400 (192M) or dual 450 (704M) machines build in about 60-90 minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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