On Wednesday 26 November 2003 17:40, Daniel Lang wrote: > 1. CVSup and build the world on your install-server (or any > other NFS server) pre installation, NFS export > /usr/src and /usr/obj to all your clients. > During post-install, mount these directories and call > 'make installworld'. > This should take much less time and effort.
This is probably the best solution for the problem (IMHO :) > 2. If you really want a installable CD image, you need to > build a release, cf. release(7). Beware, that make release > is a complicated process, that consumes a lot of ressources > and can take a long time. For "modern computers" this isn't really true any more. I have a 1Ghz K7 which does make release in 4 hours (after a buildworld) That doesn't include building ports which takes a fair amount longer, but that just depends what ports you actually want :) It takes up about 2.1Gb of space (including building about 300Mb worth of packages) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
