From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 5:39:13 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 7A22E37B404 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0ADcus39520; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:38:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:38:56 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Install new server from existing server? Message-ID: <20020110083855.A39503@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020110080821.B39310@blackhelicopters.org> 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 03:36:23PM +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 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