From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 17:01:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA22188 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22119 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:01:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from militzer.me.tuns.ca (militzer.me.tuns.ca [134.190.50.153]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA24576 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bemfica@localhost) by militzer.me.tuns.ca (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA04471; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:05:01 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:05:01 -0400 (AST) From: Antonio Bemfica To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: joe@pavilion.net Subject: RE: migrating stable onto my machines In-Reply-To: <199702201506.IAA00718@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Josef Karthauser asked: > Has anybody got a good method for upgrading machines on a network [...] First make world, etc. on your main machine Second, mount / and /usr from the remote machine: main_machine% mount remote_machine:/ /mnt main_machine% mount remote_machine:/usr /mnt/usr Third, do a 'make install' with /mnt as the destination: main_machine% make install DESTDIR=/mnt Repeat for every other remote machine on your network. It works fine for me. Antonio -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius'. It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term" -- John Lanchester, in "The Debt to Pleasure"