bootstrapping

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:55:54PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> gather there's no really working cvsup, and David's snapshot build from way 
> back is (a) from wayback (b) unstable under load.

I'll start a new snapshot build now.  Can you wait 2 days?


> I've got several running systems, both -STABLE and -CURRENT, with cvsupped 
> /usr/src's. The /usr/src's are NFS exported, and I've got a spare cheap-ass 
> NIC (yes, an RTL 8029). Supposing I boot a 4-STABLE drive with rl(4) in
> place in an amd64 box - what do I need to do to get it up to speed
> (heck, let's make it a 5-CURRENT drive, since we've got the 4-to-5
> upgrade otherwise as well).

That will work fine (32-bit FreeBSD).  My FreeBSD/i386 5-CURRENT
reference system is now an Athlon64, and is my fastest "i386" box now.