Re: building userland with a netbooted system

[Al <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost>]

Hello,

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Mouse wrote:
> > I just setup a diskless system.  I wanted to compile NetBSD 5.1.2
> > source tree (userland) on it.  It always fails after maybe 12 hours
> > of compiling.
>
> It'd probably help if you showed us exactly where it fails.  Also, it's
> important to know, does it always fail at exactly the same point?

I am pretty sure that it always fails at the same point. Unlimited did 
nothing to help. I first tried downloading the binaries for 5.1.2 and then 
with 5.1. I also used different sources each time. It still looks like it 
stops in the same place.

> If you're not sure how to tell, even just making your logfile
> (logfiles, if it fails at different points) available for us to fetch
> would help.

Does build.sh log somewhere? I can not find it.

I can do:
./build.sh -O ../obj -T ../tools >& ~/build.log &

and then make those logs available.

> > Just wondering if it is possible to compile userland with a netbooted
> > machine?
>
> I can't see any reason it would be any less possible than on a diskful
> machine.  But then, I don't think I've tried to run anything more
> recent than 4.x diskless....

I can't see one either, but I haven't tried this since 1.6 or 2.0.

Best Regards,
Al