Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:32:53 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <3AAD6AB5.889C73F8@cup.hp.com> References: <XFMail.010312124506.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3AAD394D.49597B93@cup.hp.com> <20010312.21272700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD485E.272DF239@cup.hp.com> <20010312.22211700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD53EA.F71920E8@cup.hp.com> <20010312.23010600@ler-freebie.iadfw.net>
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Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
> > 4. Mount the i486 root partition on you P-III and
> > do the install on your P-III.
>
> > Ad 4: it would be nice if we had some sort of staging. That way, the
> > install can be performed on the P-III. The staging area could then be
> > mounted by other machines and "installed". This could be as simple as
> > doing a
>
> > tar cf - ${STAGING_DIR} | (cd /; tar xf -)
> As I said, I lose the P-III optimizations while it's a host,
> or is there a variable to installworld that says ROOT is HERE...???
Yes. It's called DESTDIR, as in:
make installworld DESTDIR=/foo/bar/baz
>
> Or the CPUTYPE stuff needs to be removed from 4.3.
Not necessarily. We just need to provide a conservative default and a
short note.
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Marcel Moolenaar
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