On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:11:16AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:57:33PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > There are also instructions for doing remote installs (i.e., installworld > > > over NFS) at the bottom of UPDATING. > > > > > Where's that? (We don't support remote installs, build machine > > should equal install machine in most cases.) > > Its not explicitly listed, but the section titled "To cross-install > current onto a separate partition" can be abused to good effect. > That section is correct, because installhost == buildhost. > The other option is to mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from your build system > onto the target and run the installworld from there. I suspect you're > about to point out that certain dependencies may not have been built > correctly if the target is much older than the source, so YMMV. > Yes, there are a lot of limitations to be able to use a different host for running "make installworld". Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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