Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:50:07 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to change installworld installation root directory? Message-ID: <200212171750.07541.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20021217155100.GB34511@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <Pine.A41.4.10.10212171740040.45200-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> <20021217155100.GB34511@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Tuesday 17 December 2002 07:51 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:40:59PM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > Is it possible to mount a hard drive and make installworld so that > > the installation will install everything under this directory where > > the hard drive is mounted? Something like /mnt instead of / for > > example? > > Sure: > > make installworld DESTDIR=3D/mnt > > installs everything relative to /mnt instead of / --- see jail(8) for > some examples of doing just that. > What I do is create /usr/src and /usr/obj as their own 1.5 GB=20 partitions. That is 4-5x larger than I need. Then, I can NFS_mount them=20 on any system as /usr/src and /usr/obj. You don't have to play games=20 with names, DESTDIR, or etc.=20 For the purpose of build speed I put them on HDs with their own UDMA=20 controllers. Kent --=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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