On 20-Nov-2002 Ryan Sommers wrote: > First off I wasn't sure which list to send this to: current, hackers or > questions; so if this is the wrong destination my apologies. > > Anyway, last year, after years of using Linux, I fell in love with the > FreeBSD project. Now, I've had the desire offer my time and energy to > help development. My problem though is I only have 3 machines where I'm > currently living, 2 desktops and a laptop. I have to leave Windows > installed on one desktop for compatibility and I'd like to leave the > other desktop running 4.x so I have a UNIX computer that I know will > always be working. That leaves me with the laptop to play with 5.0 and > CURRENT. However, the laptop is a puny Cyrix P180+ (I think it's the > MediaGX chip or whatever they were touting a few years back). Doing a > make world or building a kernel would probably take me two weeks, not > the best environment for development. > > My question is could I keep and build the CURRENT source tree on the > FreeBSD desktop, mount it over NFS to the laptop, and install it over > the NFS mount? I know I can do that with 4.x, but I'm wondering if this > is really testing CURRENT if I don't build it on the 5.0 kernel. For now > I really don't think I'll be able to help much with writing anything too > intense; however I noticed in the latest 5.0 release notes that people > have been converting Perl scripts to C and I'm more then capable of > doing that. And I also think the laptop, even though it is slow would be > a usable platform for working on that kind of development.
This should work fine (doing installworld over NFS). You might want to do the initial install on the laptop using a CD or floppies to install DP2 however. > What are your thoughts on this setup; is it worth my time or should I > just sit idly by until I can get a desktop system to play with CURRENT. > I have a little free time and about 7 years experience programming C in > Linux and UNIX (peanuts compared to most people reading this I imagine) > but I'd like to help a cause I believe in. Just using 5.0 will help find some bugs I'm sure. :) -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
