From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 8 21:48:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BEB102; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [69.66.77.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B09B24A0; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r98Lm97d071877; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:48:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r98Lm9ah071876; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:48:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:48:09 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel Message-ID: <20131008214809.GC69269@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <3F.9A.16944.166A3525@cdptpa-oedge02> <20131008141501.GA69028@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <28.45.16944.64B74525@cdptpa-oedge02> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28.45.16944.64B74525@cdptpa-oedge02> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:48:12 -0000 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:38:14PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > To cross install FreeBSD on a system without the required users/groups > > you must either install them on the base system so that install and > > mtree can use them or use the -DDB_FROM_SRC option when running the > > installworld/installkernel/distribution targets. >=20 > -- Brooks >=20 > That worked for installworld, was apparently not needed subsequently for = installkernel. >=20 > But where is DB_FROM_SRC documented? I never saw it anywhere. UPDATING = file needs to be updated for installing FreeBSD on a partition where there = is no OS installed. >=20 It's documented in Makefile.inc1 where the less commonly used options are documented. It should be documented in the Handbook along with the process of cross installation and image creation. I disagree that UPDATING should document the process of installing to other locations. That would be a distraction from it's purpose of letting users update their systems. It's already far too complicated. -- Brooks --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFSVH2YXY6L6fI4GtQRAgRtAJ4i+SLz/BolE9YHvuFX55tn18uAxwCdGXya HhU/hTuuey/hyKVC3mg2Z7w= =c69F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--