Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:38:56 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Install new server from existing server? Message-ID: <20020110083855.A39503@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEOGEAAA.patrick@mip.co.za>; from patrick@mip.co.za on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:36:23PM %2B0200 References: <20020110080821.B39310@blackhelicopters.org> <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEOGEAAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:36:23PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > 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? You're welcome. For this problem, "make release" is strikes me as using a sledgehammer to squash a fly, but it does have a certain cool factor about it. :) You set up your FTP/NFS server on your 4.5 box to point at the directory that contains the tarballs from make release, and point your client at it. Good luck! -- 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
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