Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:23:35 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is x-compiling 2.2 on a 3.x system supported? Message-ID: <200006212123.OAA29113@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:01:17 %2B1000." <00Jun22.070131est.115211@border.alcanet.com.au>
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In message <00Jun22.070131est.115211@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy write s: > On 2000-Jun-21 06:29:35 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schu > bert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> wrote: > >In message <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter > >Jeremy write > >s: > >> When I asked a similar question, Cy Schubert suggested running > >> buildworld inside a chroot'd 2.2 environment - and that worked > >> on a 4.x system (but I haven't gotten around to the installworld > >> part). > > Actually, what I wrote isn't quite true. I have successfully run the > installworld inside my chroot'd tree. What I haven't done is install > the result into the target machine, so I can't confirm that the > resultant world is fully functional (though there were no glitches > with the installworld, so I don't expect any problems). Since the > target is running a custom, cut-down copy of 2.2 (due to severe lack > of disk space), the final install is non-trivial. What I would do is use a statically linked version of rsync to replace everything on the target system: 1. Boot -s target system. 2. ifconfig the target system's NIC. 3. rsync the new 2.2 system to the target system. Of course this hasn't been tested, caveat emptor. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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