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
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