From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Mar 12 17: 5:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287F637B718; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/20010112/$Revision: 1.13 $) id f2D0xSn14424; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:59:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ler) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:59:28 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: John Baldwin , qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <20010312185928.A14402@lerami.lerctr.org> 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> <3AAD6AB5.889C73F8@cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <3AAD6AB5.889C73F8@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:32:53PM -0800 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Marcel Moolenaar [010312 18:32]: > 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 NOPE, doesn't work, as install -fschg doesn't work across NFS. I'll post the log in a bit. SO, now I guess I have to ignore the CPUTYPE= setting while installing the 486. I don't think this was what was intended. > > > > > 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 -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message