How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?

[Chris Vance]

Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>>From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:doublef at tele-kom.ru] 
>>
>>On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:09AM -0700,
>> Darren Pilgrim probably wrote:
>>
>>>What do I need to us to accomplish the above?
>>
>>man release.
> 
> 
> Is there a way to skip the build portions of `make release` and just create
> the distributions and ISOs with what's already built?

I typically use:

setenv CVSROOT foo
time make -DNOPORTS -DNODOC -DMAKE_ISOS release CHROOTDIR=/usr/release 
EXTSRCDIR=/usr/src > & /tmp/release.out

This presumes you've already done a buildworld in /usr/src; it will also 
use that version of the source code, rather than pulling everything down 
from the CVS server.  Because of the way the release process uses a 
chroot environment, it's still going to have to re-build everything. So, 
it's quite a time-intensive operation no matter how many shortcuts you take.

chris.