HOW TO BURN IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM USING FREEBSD
ASSUMPTIONS:
You have already installed FreeBSD. If not,
here is a procedure to do so:
How to Install FreeBSD
RUNNING THE MAKES
- cd /usr/src
- make world; make clean; make world; make clean; make world; make clean;
make world; make clean; make world; make clean
- My idea here is to run 'make world' and
'make on XFree86' concurrently, thus stressing the system.
Further: Run as many 'make worlds' as you like, but
generally five or six are enough.
- Press Alt-F2 to switch to another terminal
- login as root
- cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Servers
- make (it will tell you it doesn't
have all the files, and will download
the ones it needs - this takes less
than five minutes on my system.
Then the make will run - this is a long make,
and will probably take four or
five hours.) (NOTE: If you have had a
crash and are rerunning the make on
XFree86, you should probably run a 'make clean'
first.)
- Once this process is finished, press Alt-F1
to go back to the first window
- If the multiple 'make world; make clean' processes
(started above) have finished, run them again
- Press Alt-F2
- cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3
- make (it will tell you it doesn't
have all the files, and will download
the ones it needs - this takes less than
five minutes on my system. Then
the make will run - this is a long make,
and will probably take four or five hours.)
- At this point, the system has now survived
simultaneous makes of the world,
XFree86, and kde3. It should be
stable. I generally overclock the FSB by
5% to 10% and move the RAM into more
agressive timings, before running the
above tests. If these pass, I reset
the system to normal settings and
figure I have a stable system. I
don't sell any machines that won't
survive the above tests with
anything less than a 5% overclock.
This tests the power supply, motherboard,
CPU, RAM, hard drive (not completely of
course), CDROM, and NIC. So any
failures that crop up after
this are probably due to video or the
Windows software issues.
Here are some other FreeBSD related links:
How to Install FreeBSD
Shell Configuration
FreeBSD Device List
Hardware
Burn-In Test Using FreeBSD
FreeBSD
Commands Cheat Sheet
'make
install' fails on FreeBSD
The
FreeBSD 'Handbook' online
Search
for Answers to Questions about FreeBSD
How
to Install NTP (Network Time Protocol) software on FreeBSD
How
to Install Samba file server software on FreeBSD
Mounting
and Using the Floppy Drive in FreeBSD
Mounting
and Using the CD-ROM Drive in FreeBSD
How to Find or Search for a Directory or a file
How to Preserve the Date and Time Stamp When Copying Files
How to Copy Files, and Directories recursively in FreeBSD / unix
How To Fix The 'Read Only File System' Problem When rc.conf is Corrupted on Freebsd
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AT YOUR OWN RISK: These instructions have no guarantee or
warrantee of fitness for any purpose whatsoever--and none
shall be implied or inferred. If you use these
and incur any kind of damage--it is your responsibility.
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