From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 21 14:24:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF42D37B670 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id OAA17099; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:24:09 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda17097; Wed Jun 21 14:23:56 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA29113; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006212123.OAA29113@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdl29105; Wed Jun 21 14:23:35 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cschuber To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is x-compiling 2.2 on a 3.x system supported? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:01:17 +1000." <00Jun22.070131est.115211@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:23:35 -0700 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <00Jun22.070131est.115211@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy write s: > On 2000-Jun-21 06:29:35 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group bert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> wrote: > >In message <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter > >Jeremy write > >s: > >> When I asked a similar question, Cy Schubert suggested running > >> buildworld inside a chroot'd 2.2 environment - and that worked > >> on a 4.x system (but I haven't gotten around to the installworld > >> part). > > Actually, what I wrote isn't quite true. I have successfully run the > installworld inside my chroot'd tree. What I haven't done is install > the result into the target machine, so I can't confirm that the > resultant world is fully functional (though there were no glitches > with the installworld, so I don't expect any problems). Since the > target is running a custom, cut-down copy of 2.2 (due to severe lack > of disk space), the final install is non-trivial. What I would do is use a statically linked version of rsync to replace everything on the target system: 1. Boot -s target system. 2. ifconfig the target system's NIC. 3. rsync the new 2.2 system to the target system. Of course this hasn't been tested, caveat emptor. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message