Serial line fbsd installation with no CD
Jez Hancock
jez.hancock at munk.nu
Sat Apr 12 08:35:39 PDT 2003
Hi Bill,
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:13:13AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> Subject: Re: Serial line fbsd installation with no CD
>
> Earlier in the linear time track, approximately Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 14:38 ,
> &Jez Hancockdivulged this public information:
>
>
> > I have two colocated servers in the US and I'm in the UK.
> > I need to install FreeBSD 4.8 from scratch across a serial
> > connection that exists between the two servers. The current OS
> > are FreeBSD 4.6.2 and as such I am unable to adequately make
> > world to the latest STABLE release.
>
> > Further I do not have the option of installing from a CDROM
> > installed on the server. Has anyone been in a similar situation
> > and if so how did you resolve the problem?
>
> What is ther problem with the makeworld you are having?
The problem was with ipfw2 and in general it's just the fact this is
currently not a production server and we'd rather have a fresh install
of 4.8 (the NOC currently installs 4.6.2 for some reason and it might
become the case that they'll start installing 4.8 by default when they
answer us - negating the need for a solution to the subject question:).
> And are you really performing 'make world' and not 'make
> buildworld' ?
I followed /usr/src/Makefile:
# 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree).
# 2. `make buildworld'
# 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC).
# 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC).
# 5. `reboot' (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt).
# 6. `mergemaster -p'
# 7. `make installworld'
# 8. `mergemaster'
# 9. `reboot'
with the exception of using 'make update' in between steps 1 and 2.
/etc/make.conf setup as:
SUP_UPDATE= yes
SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup
SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
SUPHOST= cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
SUPFILE= /etc/supfile-src-stable
PORTSSUPFILE= /etc/supfile-ports-all
DOCSUPFILE= /etc/supfile-doc-all
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-I/usr/local/include/sasl1 -DSASL
SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/local/lib
SENDMAIL_LDADD+=-lsasl
SENDMAIL_MC=/etc/mail/munk.nu.mc
IPFW2=TRUE
/etc/supfile-src-stable setup as:
*default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
> I have several colocated servers and I perform OS upgrades
> via a cvsup of the sources. What are the problems with the
> makeing the system.
Sorry I should have mentioned one is production and one is dev (this is
the one we're rebuilding and migrating to).
> Since these are production servers I'd almost be
> inclined to say to go with the 4.7 pathched release.
>
> I've not moved any to the 4.8 RELEASE yet as it still is a bit
> 'young' in my opinion. I do have then on the 4.7's with the
> lastest patch level
My plan was to install a stock 4.8 system and immediately cvsup to STABLE.
Perhaps as you mention it would be better to stay with 4.7-RELEASE until
4.8 is out of it's infancy.
Hopefully the NOC support will get moving on providing at least a 4.7
CD for installation.
This all brings to mind another question I had regarding partitioning,
will start another thread for that :)
Many thanks again,
Jez
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