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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:07:00 +0000
From:      John Howie <john@thehowies.com>
To:        Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: soekris + buildworld/kernel/...
Message-ID:  <D0122B81.4AEAB%john@thehowies.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140814102416.GI69063@mordor.lan>
References:  <20140814102416.GI69063@mordor.lan>

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Hi Julien,

There are a number of ways to do it. My preferred way is to build an image
of a live filesystem with my custom kernel, use dd to write it to a disk
partition on the target machine and then boot from it. I would not bother
with NFS mounting filesystems, etc.

Regards,

John


On 8/14/14, 3:24 AM, "Julien Cigar" <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a Soekris box for which I would like to upgrade through the
>"classical" way (buildworld, kernel, etc). As the box is pretty slow and
>requires a custom kernel, I would like to buildworld/buildkernel on
>another (fast) machine. How can I do that? Is scp -r or NFS mount
>/usr/obj enough ..?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Julien
>
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