building and installing world on two separate machines
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? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building and installing world on two separate machines
On 09/04/06 02:25 AM, 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? Thanks. Dave. NOTE: I've never tried anything like this. Hopefully someone else can chime in here. I think I would try this: - make buildworld; make buildkernel on the fast box - copy over /usr/src and /usr/obj - make installkernel on the target machine (assuming buildkernel and installkernel targets still exist..) - copy out /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh to /usr/sbin/mergemaster (might not be needed) - reboot to single user and do the normal mergemaster -p; make installworld; mergemaster - reboot and hope for the best. Sounds good enough to me... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building and installing world on two separate machines
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building and installing world on two separate machines
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
