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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:30:08 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        "Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest)" <ghcrompton@gecko.eric.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: upgrading a FreeBSD box from another one without NFS
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010131113008.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010131172931.A16260@gecko.eric.net.au>

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On 31-Jan-01 Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have one box setup with FreeBSD 4.1.1 and a second with 4.2, I was wondering
> if it is possible to just tarball /usr/src from the 4.2 box, copy it across
> and then run make world on the 4.1.1 box to upgrade it to 4.2.  I have had a
> look at the NFS stuff for network upgrades, but don't want to have to set that
> up because of other considerations.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if that would work please?

I think that is more or less how I  have done it once. 
So it should work.

> Thanks,
> Geoff
> 
> 
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