From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 12:40:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA55C106564A for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:40:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christer.solskogen@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42CBA8FC12 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhq12 with SMTP id hq12so3503437wib.13 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:40:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=4TUuPSi4HdsJjCBAThGT9fbGJq1w4Q9GL7BJajOT5T4=; b=EIyp0yDWbNnWd97bMl+RoK3m6dPvqU2CzHwC/Phw5ONQkQ6FFzhDYflmslK4VeRQbm +0WFmXHHRlVucHB5n+3puRBIYAS1/Y35m7YxArzMoAFqCHK1sAgopEb5fKzSca5ww2O6 DMFzhjxgO/q9iNVjsne6WuW9CH5t1AxdX74+Q= Received: by 10.180.93.168 with SMTP id cv8mr31322523wib.2.1326890423464; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:40:23 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.142.20 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: Christer Solskogen Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:40:02 +0100 Message-ID: To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Cross building FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:40:24 -0000 Hi! I've just installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on my Mac Mini G4 (powerpc) - Can I use my other, and much faster, machine(amd64) to compile world and kernel to either populate /usr/obj or to generate base.txz, and kernel.txz? If the latter, how to I use base.txz? Just unpack it in / ? -- chs,