Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 03:22:04 -0400 From: Mitch <mitch@mdickinson.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building and installing world on two separate machines Message-ID: <20060904072203.GB58416@hydrogen.mdickinson.org> In-Reply-To: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite>
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On 09/04/06 02:25 AM, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I have a machine that i want to upgrade from 5.x to 6.1. I've got a 6.1 > world built on a much faster system and would like to just install it on > this machine. I thought about nfs, but i have to drop to single user mode > to do the make installworld and won't have nfs available. Is there a way i > can install this already compiled world on the slower box without having to > remake it? > Thanks. > Dave. NOTE: I've never tried anything like this. Hopefully someone else can chime in here. I think I would try this: - make buildworld; make buildkernel on the fast box - copy over /usr/src and /usr/obj - make installkernel on the target machine (assuming buildkernel and installkernel targets still exist..) - copy out /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh to /usr/sbin/mergemaster (might not be needed) - reboot to single user and do the normal mergemaster -p; make installworld; mergemaster - reboot and hope for the best. Sounds good enough to me...
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