Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:35:33 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld to directory other than "/" Message-ID: <20030122223533.GA73530@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030123012645.E40308-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> References: <20030123012645.E40308-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:31:42AM +0300, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to make installworld to some directory other than "/", e.g.,
> to directory "/new", while the old system is working. The only way to do
> that which I can think of is
> - copy "/", /usr and /var to /new
> - chroot /new
> - make installworld from there
> Is there more easy/elegant way?
Simple:
# make installworld DESTDIR=/new
Cheers,
Matthew
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