From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 07:27:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8506916A4E9 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 07:27:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6CC43D6D for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 07:27:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) id k847RItg060476; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 02:27:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 02:27:18 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Dave Message-ID: <20060904072718.GF93326@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building and installing world on two separate machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:27:24 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 04), Dave said: > I have a machine that i want to upgrade from 5.x to 6.1. I've got a 6.1 > world built on a much faster system and would like to just install it on > this machine. I thought about nfs, but i have to drop to single user mode > to do the make installworld and won't have nfs available. Is there a way i > can install this already compiled world on the slower box without having to > remake it? There's nothing stopping you from doing an NFS mount in single-user mode. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com