From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 13:58:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA7116A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from fielden.com.au (www.fielden.com.au [203.34.58.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E71BE43D39 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:58:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@fielden.com.au) Received: (qmail 14554 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2003 21:31:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fielden.com.au) (192.168.1.84) by persephone.fielden.com.au with SMTP; 23 Dec 2003 21:31:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3FE8B435.2020104@fielden.com.au> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:31:33 +1100 From: Rowdy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: compiling a kernel on a different machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:58:38 -0000 Greetings, My attempts to compile a (5.1-RELEASE) kernel on a very old PC take around 5 hours (of compile time), while a much faster machine sits by idle. It would be great to be able to compile the kernel on the faster machine and transfer it to the older machine. Would I be correct in thinking that the simplest way to do this would be to execute the compile AND the install on the fast PC, then copy the /boot/kernel directory from the fast PC to the old PC? I realise I would need to rename /boot/kernel.old back to /boot/kernel on the fast PC so it would boot again. Or is there a better way without disrupting /boot on the fast PC? tia Dave