Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:12:02 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about making a new machine from an old one Message-ID: <199712201012.LAA29331@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199712170155.RAA04988@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <199712170507.WAA02379@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote: > Yes, but I need to have machine number 1 in this infinite series > first. Since I don't have a a -stable machine to clone from, I > thought I'd do it from my -stable build tree. I have many -current > machines that I could clone, but I didn't think downgrading from > -current to -stable was possible... You can always make a release. ;-) `make release' is very paranoid now about the various pitfalls that could happen if the hosting and the target version of the system are different. Since `make release' requires you to offer a chroot directory, you end up with a completely and cleanly bootstrapped target tree. There's nobody telling you the chroot target dir can't be an entire tree of mounted filesystems. You can abort the process by the time the chroot environment has finished its own chroot'ed `make world', before you're starting to roll the various distribution tarballs (which takes another good deal of time to complete). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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