Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:31:32 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest)" <ghcrompton@gecko.eric.net.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: upgrading a FreeBSD box from another one without NFS Message-ID: <007f01c08b57$d5dd2730$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20010131172931.A16260@gecko.eric.net.au>
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> I have one box setup with FreeBSD 4.1.1 and a second with 4.2, I was wondering if it is possible to just tarball /usr/src from the 4.2 box, copy it across and then run make world on the 4.1.1 box to upgrade it to 4.2. I have had a look at the NFS stuff for network upgrades, but don't want to have to set that up because of other considerations. Yes, that should work without problems - I've been down this road before, also because I didn't want to set up NFS. However, it's really much easier if you can use NFS. Nothing beats doing a 'make buildworld' once, followed by a simple mount command and 'make installworld', especially if you've got multiple servers to upgrade. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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