compiling a kernel on a different machine

[Sean Ellis]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:31:38PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> Rowdy told a big fish story including the following on 12/23/2003 1:31 PM:
> >
> >My attempts to compile a (5.1-RELEASE) kernel on a very old PC take 
> >around 5 hours (of compile time), while a much faster machine sits by 
> >idle.  It would be great to be able to compile the kernel on the 
> >faster machine and transfer it to the older machine.
> >
> >Or is there a better way without disrupting /boot on the fast PC?
> 
> Anyway, there is a better way.  I briefly looked through the TOC of the 
> handbook but could not find the page I was looking for.  However, I know 
> I've seen it somewhere.

I think that page that you're thinking of has undergone some changes. I
would refer to it myself when doing buildworld on a faster machine, then
installing to the slower, target. The newer pagee, if I'm correct, is
here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html
Essentially it's the same procedure, but the step by step instructions
for getting the nfs mount is gone. An editorial decision reflecting the
notion that this wasn't the place for an nfs howto(?).

OK, hang on. Here it is in an older handbook I have. Appearing as:
"19.4.15.5. Can I use one machine as a master to upgrade lots of machines
(NFS)?", a question at the bottom of the handbook's makeworld.html. That could likely be
searched for and retrieved somewhere in this vast internet of ours,

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Christmas Cheers,
Sean