Buildworld for slow system on faster system
Shawn Barnhart
swb at grasslake.net
Wed Jan 23 13:23:45 PST 2008
My primary FreeBSD box is a Dual P3 700 Mhz, which is dandy for my
console mode server usage but kind of blows for buildworld and kernels
when I want them done a timely fashion. I'd like to do it in a
dual-proc VM on my quad core workstation, where it gets done a lot faster.
Is there any documentation for doing buildworld on a faster system for a
slower system? Can I just mount the slow system's /usr/src on a
mountpoint on the faster system, do the buildworld and buildkernel, and
then run the installworld and installkernel as per normal on the slow
system? It sounds too easy, so it probably is..
What about ports? I can usually tolerate the ports build times, so its
not a big deal, although sometimes the dependencies and larger packages
can be toe-tappers as well.
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