From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 0:35:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918AF37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hispeed.ch (isp247n.hispeed.ch [62.2.95.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F9743EB2 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:35:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from locus@hispeed.ch) Received: from rock.stable.ch (dclient217-162-34-199.hispeed.ch [217.162.34.199]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/tornado-1.0) with ESMTP id gBI8ZT4g029735 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:35:30 +0100 Received: from locus by rock.stable.ch with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18OZft-0003ze-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:35:29 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:35:29 +0100 From: Thomas Spreng To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to change installworld installation root directory? Message-ID: <20021218083529.GA15130@rock.stable.ch> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021217155100.GB34511@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <200212171750.07541.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212171750.07541.kstewart@owt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:50:07PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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=/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 > partitions. That is 4-5x larger than I need. Then, I can NFS_mount them > on any system as /usr/src and /usr/obj. You don't have to play games > with names, DESTDIR, or etc. why would you want /usr/obj nfs mounted as well? > For the purpose of build speed I put them on HDs with their own UDMA > controllers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message