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Date:      Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:25:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        leoric@home.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: make world  and ports question
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010102132550.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A5244D2.90507@home.com>

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On 02-Jan-01 leoric@home.com wrote:
> I am setting up a freebsd cluster of machines using vpm. The problem I 
> am having is that the disks are nearly full and there is no way they 
> could hold /usr/ports or /usr/src. I would like to be able to 'make 
> install' ports and do 'make world' on these machines. Is there a way 
> that I could store the src and ports on a server of some sort but 
> actually install on the individual node?

Just use NFS to mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from your server onto the machines.
You can then just use 'make installworld' to install a world that is already
built in /usr/obj via 'make buildworld'.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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