Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

[Pat Maddox]

Yep, that's pretty much right.  Use one of the systems to build
everything as packages, and then install all those packages onto your
other machines.

You'll still need to compile the kernel and source on each individual machine.



On Apr 6, 2005 4:18 PM, Iain Dooley <iain_dooley at hotmail.com> wrote:
> hi lowell,
> 
> >The recommended path is to do a binary upgrade.  5.4 will be out in a
> >few weeks, and release candidate builds are available now.
> 
> to what extent does building the sources on my machine affect the resulting
> binaries? to be more specific:
> 
> i read the freebsd handbook section on maintaining multiple systems from one
> 'build machine'. if i were to allocate one of the machines on my network to
> build sources into binaries, say my HP PII, would those binaries be
> appropriate to install on my thinkpad? my understanding is that i could take
> a subset of those binaries and install them on my laptop, and then build the
> kernel from the thinkpad and this would work (assuming i got all the
> binaries right). is that correct?
> 
> cheers
> 
> iain
> 
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