Erik Cederstrand wrote:
Brooks Davis wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:59:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
Brooks Davis wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
>> [...]
If I ignore documentation distfiles (will this affect benchmarks
in any way?), AFAICT the only distribution sets I need are base,
proflibs, kernels and (maybe) lib32. Is there a way to get "make
release" to do just that? I'm open to other suggestions, of course.
To just create a working image you can just do:
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make DESTDIR=/target/directory installworld
make DESTDIR=/target/directory distribution
make DESTDIR=/target/directory installkernel
This doesn't seem to create the distribution sets I want. It just
creates the hierarchy of files which are eventually going to be on
the hard-disk on the clients. I may be wrong, but it seems that to
be able to use sysinstall to install the clients, I need to create
distribution sets like the ones supplied here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/
Ah, I didn't realized you wanted to do that. If you do want to use
sysinstall,
then you do indeed to use make release. The various NO* options
documented in
the release(7) manpage and the makefile should be useful here.
Ok, thanks.
That said, I can't imagine why you'd want sysinstall to be involved in
a automated benchmark system.
Incompetence is probably the best answer :-)
Doing what it does using a hand rolled script is way easier then
trying work with it.
Ok, so are you suggesting something like this?:
1. make world, distribution, kernel
2. make any necessary changes to config files
3. cram the result onto a custom mfs (or make it available somewhere)
4. boot using the custom mfs as root device
5. point init_path in loader.conf to my own script which:
5a. prepares (bsdlabel, newfs etc.) the hard-disk
5b. mounts the hard-disk and copies the distribution files over
5. reboot
6. install any necessary packages
7. run benchmarks
It would probably be easier if you just NFS booted into a small FreeBSD
installation, and then had a script that set up the drive, and ran an
installworld/kernel/etc against it. No need to use mfs I don't think.
This kind of sounds like the automated performance measurement project
that has been mentioned here (or was it -current?) a few times, once
somewhat recently.
Eric
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