From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Mar 12 16:32:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CAC437B726; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38435B5; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id QAA26427; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:32:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3AAD6AB5.889C73F8@cup.hp.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:32:53 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Rosenman Cc: John Baldwin , qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cputype=486 References: <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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message