From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 10 03:14:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17733 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 03:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.cadence.com (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA17728 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 03:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mailgate.cadence.com (8.8.5/8.6.8) id DAA22643; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 03:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807101013.DAA22643@mailgate.cadence.com> Received: from unknown(194.32.96.130) by mailgate.cadence.com via smap (mjr-v1.2) id xma900065637.022635; Fri, 10 Jul 98 03:13:57 -0700 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Duncan Barclay" To: patton@sysnet.net (Matthew Patton), John Birrell Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:13:36 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: SOLUTION! 2.2.6-Release to -current Reply-to: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk CC: tcole@nihilist.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199807100843.SAA27370@cimlogic.com.au> References: from Matthew Patton at "Jul 8, 98 08:02:49 pm" X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Matthew Patton wrote: > > To think I went through all this pain just to get a SMP kernel so I can > > crack rc5des faster. My word of advice: if you want SMP, save yourself the > > hassle and start with a -current snapshot. *whew* > > *Grumble*. Today I went though the exercise of installing 2.2.6-RELEASE > from the CD that WC ships. I booted from the install CD, used the > visual thingy to deselect all the hardware I don't have (leaving > just ide/fd controllers, par/ser ports, ed0) and did a novice > install. I gave it the whole disk (wd0), let it use the default > partitions, and selected just the user binaries. I created one group > and one user, set the timezone and root password, rebooted, logged > in as root, NFS mounted /usr/src from another machine. Then I did > exactly as I have been advising people to do: > > cd /usr/src > make -m /usr/src/share/mk world > > I sat and watched it do the complete build without error. No need to > set BINFORMAT or MACHINE_ARCH. No editing /etc/make.conf. No > specially installing mk files. No rebuilding just libc. No secret > handshake. No rocket science. Just a simple make. > To echo and reinforce that this works I did the following a couple of weeks ago whilst setting -current up on a spare MB. vanilla 2.2.6 relase from the CDs checked out -current source from CD2 into /bigdisk/current cvsup'd the tree cd /bigdisk/current/src make -m `pwd`/share/mk buildworld make DESTDIR=/smalldisk -m `pwd`/share/mk installworld mkdir -p /smalldisk/usr/src/sys pax'd sys into /smalldisk/usr/sys chroot'd to /smalldisk cd /sys/i386/conf configure GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend make all make install (this is from memory, but the buildworld certainly was done as advertised). I then took out smalldisk from my big machine and put it onto an old 486 MB, and turned it and booted -current. Since then I've done NFS re-installs via PLIP (I have three network cards, at least two are dead :-(). Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message