From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 10:38:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3347F16A4B3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9415543F93 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:38:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 3089 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Oct 2003 17:39:41 -0000 To: current@freebsd.org From: Chris Shenton Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:39:41 -0400 Message-ID: <863cdvbtwi.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: How to create distribution for later NFS sysinstall on other box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:38:05 -0000 Some of my systems are 5.1-CURRENT but I still have some older 4.x boxes. I'd like to upgrade them to the same OS as my 5.1 boxes. It seems stupid to feed them boot floppies then FTP the OS across the WAN from freebsd.org or mirrors. I expect there's a way to build a distribution on my main 5.1 system then use sysinstall on the target 4.x to install via NFS (or FTP or...) over the LAN. I have not found any pointers on doing this in the Handbook or a couple quick Googles (perhaps I'm searching on the wrong terms). Seems it should be something like this on the server: cd /usr/src make distribution I'd like to make the distribution based on my 5.1-CURRENT, rather than copying/creating a 5.1-RELEASE image so I won't have to do a subsequent update to get it CURRENT. Any pointers? If I'm missing obvious docs, just tell me where to RTFM. :-) Thanks.