From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 5:32:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C859B37B402 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA82655; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:30:58 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Michael Lucas" Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" Subject: RE: Install new server from existing server? Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:23 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020110080821.B39310@blackhelicopters.org> 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 > -----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