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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:49:32 -0500
From:      Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: compiling a kernel on a different machine
Message-ID:  <bsb2cc$miv$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <3FE8B435.2020104@fielden.com.au> <3FE8C24A.6050001@mykitchentable.net> <20031224020409.GA56314@telus.net> <20031224021545.GA56440@telus.net>

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Sean Ellis wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:04:09PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:31:38PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>  
>> OK, hang on. Here it is in an older handbook I have. Appearing as:
>> "19.4.15.5. Can I use one machine as a master to upgrade lots of machines
>> (NFS)?", a question at the bottom of the handbook's makeworld.html.i
> 
> Oops, I'm sorry. Having fired off that last post I've realized that this
> is not the page that I thought I was remembering ; )

I can't think of a better way to install a kernel than to copy /boot/kernel
to the new machine or set the DESTDIR environment var. If you're installing
world then it's a different story, but kernels are fairly self contained.

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