From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 23:25:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693EC37B6AF for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f0V7NIi08732; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:23:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <007f01c08b57$d5dd2730$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest)" , References: <20010131172931.A16260@gecko.eric.net.au> Subject: Re: upgrading a FreeBSD box from another one without NFS Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:31:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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