From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 08:19:35 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 053DB16A4DA for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za (sirian.hst.org.za [209.203.2.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF8743D58 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:19:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from localhost (localhost.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DB631D022 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:17:49 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sirian.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48597-01 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:17:49 +0200 (SAST) Received: by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0649D31D01E; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:17:49 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za (sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za [10.1.1.20]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336DC31D00C for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:17:48 +0200 (SAST) From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Health Systems Trust To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:19:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite> In-Reply-To: <000301c6cfea$f6e55780$0200a8c0@satellite> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609041019.10655.jonathan@hst.org.za> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on sirian.hst.org.za X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hst.org.za 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 08:19:35 -0000 On Monday 04 September 2006 08:25, Dave wrote: > Hello, > 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? I do this across all my servers, by nfs-mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj from the build server on the target server before dropping it to single-user mode: the filesystems stay mounted and I just cd /usr/src make installworld Jonathan