5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)

Tim Howe tim.howe at celebrityresorts.com
Sat Sep 24 12:06:19 PDT 2005


Owe Jørgensen <oweandre at stud.ntnu.no> writes:

> I'm no expert on this, but I'd let that machine have it's own build
> environment instead of NFS importing it from a server.

I'm not doing a separate build, just installing a prebuilt system.  The
machines are all Pentium IIIs and I'm using GENERIC kernels on all of
them.

> It _does_ require more disk space, but in the long run, it might be
> for the better. If you _must_ export from server, then export only
> /usr/src and not /usr/obj

I was following these instructions in the handbook:

> Secondly, it allows you to use NFS mounts to upgrade multiple machines
> on your network. If you have three machines, A, B and C that you want
> to upgrade, run make buildworld and make installworld on A. B and C
> should then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from A, and you can then
> run make installworld to install the results of the build on B and C.

-- 
Tim Howe
Software Engineer
Celebrity Resorts, Inc.


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