From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 09:40:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07673 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA07668 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id KAA25027; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:39:16 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199702281739.KAA25027@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: upgrade with make world To: compland@ism.com.br (Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:39:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702281645.NAA14262@unix1.ism.com.br> from "Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica" at Feb 28, 97 01:45:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a machine already running 2.1.7R and it has all the source > code. Is it possible to upgrade another box (running 2.1.0) if I NFS > mount the /usr/src of the 2.1.7box and I issue a Make World in the > 2.1.0box ? Can I leave the machine running as usual or I need to stop > all the daemons it is running (it's a Web/SMTP server) ? If you've already done 'make world' on the 2.1.7 box, you don't need to rebuilding everything on the other machine. Try just make install. You'll need to configure and make a 2.1.7 kernel for the new machine as well, of course. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com