From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 11:54:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A4737B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rly-ip03.mx.aol.com (rly-ip03.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E5043E75 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danielgeske@gmx.net) Received: from logs-tm.proxy.aol.com (logs-tm.proxy.aol.com [152.163.197.5]) by rly-ip03.mx.aol.com (v89.10) with ESMTP id RELAYIN5-1108145356; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:53:56 -0400 Received: from bowman (AC9B7955.ipt.aol.com [172.155.121.85]) by logs-tm.proxy.aol.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id gA8Jqfg60380 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:52:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Daniel Geske" To: Subject: Remote Installation from Sources Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:51:04 +0100 Message-ID: <000201c28760$2fbcaea0$6ef9a8c0@aoldsl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-Apparently-From: BigOnLRAR@aol.com 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 Hi all, I have a very specific question about installing FreeBSD. In my network I've got one FreeBSD machine running. In fact, I'm so amazed by this OS FreeBSD that I would like to use it on all my network now. So I have this other pc, with a 5gig hd of free space. That's where I'd like to install. I just don't want to install from the www (through my isdn line) neither do I want to get CDs. Instead, I'd like to install from that host FreeBSD already runs on. It cvsups src-all and ports-all regularly. Distfiles are kept too. With all the data already downloaded onto this computer, I'd like to install from there. Here's the question: How do I do it? I suppose I'd have to get a boot floppy for that new host, prepare the hd, ...and then? I figure I'd have to run something like makeworld. How do I build a system with sources on host A, from host B, for host B? Can this be done? Where can I find info on this? Has anyone had experience with such procedure? Am I on the wrong way and need more than just the sources? I'd be happy to hear from you soon. Sincerely Daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message