Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:19:10 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building and installing world on two separate machines Message-ID: <200609041019.10655.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite>
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On Monday 04 September 2006 08:25, 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? I do this across all my servers, by nfs-mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj from the build server on the target server before dropping it to single-user mode: the filesystems stay mounted and I just cd /usr/src make installworld Jonathan
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