Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:23 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> To: "Michael Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Install new server from existing server? Message-ID: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEOGEAAA.patrick@mip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20020110080821.B39310@blackhelicopters.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Lucas [mailto:mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org] > Sent: 10 January 2002 15:08 > To: Patrick O'Reilly > Cc: FreeBSD Question List > Subject: Re: Install new server from existing server? > > > 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). > Thanks Michael, I shall be contemplating these options, and then taking the plunge. :) My old and new hardware are not very similar, so I'll need to be careful about things like CPUTYPE if I go that route, as you said, but that should be easy enough. Meanwhile, I'll be reading up on the release target of make - that's new to me! I'm assuming I would then tell sysinstall to use FTP or NFS to get at the files? Thank you, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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