installkernel on small disk

blah smrad01 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 12:51:30 PST 2009


Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've two servers (in fact guest in vmware) on don't have enought disk space
> to make buildkernel (or world).
>
> For the world freebsd-update can work. But for the kernel I've my own
> kernel.
>
> So if I compile the kernel on the other server how can I put it on the
> first ?
>
> Regards.
>
>
>   
build kernel on the server
use nfs to export /usr/src, /usr/obj
mount them appropriate on the client, make same /etc/make.conf on both 
server and client
on the client cd /usr/src and make installkernel .... rebooot and you 
are done



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