Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:18:54 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create distribution for later NFS sysinstall on other box? Message-ID: <20031014191854.GA47636@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <863cdvbtwi.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <863cdvbtwi.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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<redirected to -questions> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:39:41PM -0400, Chris Shenton typed: > 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. :-) OK, this should get you going: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-build.html man release G'luck Ruben > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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