From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 13 7:11:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5D437B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ramstind.gtf.ol.no (ramstind.gtf.ol.no [128.39.174.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB29843E6A for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by ramstind.gtf.ol.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA85727; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:10:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:10:54 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= To: Steve Peterson Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need instructions: build kernel on one machine; install on another In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020813084802.037d9498@magpie.zpfe.com> Message-ID: <20020813160914.T85135-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:56-0500, Steve Peterson wrote: > Hi -- I'm looking for a pointer to instructions on how to take a kernel > built on one machine and install it on another. I checked the handbook and > the FAQ to no avail, and did some searching of the mailing list that came > up empty. I've built & installed kernels using "make buildkernel ; make > installkernel", so I'm not a total newbie to kernel building. > > If the answer is to go and look at the "installkernel" target in the > makefile, I can handle that, but wanted to check with the list to see if > there's anything I should be paying attention to. One suggestion: Mount /usr/src from machine A on machine B as NFS. Then do a make installkernel. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.5-S & Pine 4.44 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message