building and installing world on two separate machines

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Sep 4 00:27:24 PDT 2006


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.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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