From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 5: 8:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBB537B416 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0AD8Li39362; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:08:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:08:21 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Install new server from existing server? Message-ID: <20020110080821.B39310@blackhelicopters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from patrick@mip.co.za on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:20:20PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you have enough disk space on the old machine, you can use "make release" to generate all the .tgz files the installer uses, and do it as you suggest. You could do it this way, which would be easier and wouldn't require so much disk space: install 4.3 on new box NFS mount /usr/obj from the 4.5 server on the 4.3 server. Run "make installkernel" and "make installworld" from the NFS mount. That'll save you a good chunk of time & effort. Of course, you'll need to be sure you haven't set anything in /etc/make.conf that will conflict between the two machines (i.e., CPUTYPE). On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:20:20PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Greetings all! > > I have a server, originally installed from CD on 4.3 RELEASE, and now at > 4.5-PRERELEASE. Now I have a virgin box which I would like to install > as soon as 4.5 goes to RELEASE. Installing 4.3 and then running cvsup > for all changes through 4.5 will be rather long-winded, methinks! > > Having read the Handbook I understand that I can install via FTP, or I > can download "images" to another server, and then install via NFS. > Given that I live in a bandwidth-challenged part of the world, such > large image downloads are prohibitively slow and prone to corruption. > > I was hoping that there might be a way to install which uses the > installation on my existing 4.5 box to populate the new hardware. In > other words, something similar to the following: > 1) create boot floppies from 4.5-STABLE > 2) boot new box from floppies > 3) sysinstall reads from old box (4.5-STABLE) via the LAN > > Is this possible? > > I remember seeing discussions on the -STABLE mailing list about using > one server for cvsup and "make buildworld", then copying the /usr/obj > tree to additional servers to perform "make installworld". Might this > be a feasible course to follow? > > Patrick. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message