Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 18:35:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: jwd@unx.sas.com (John W. DeBoskey) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install from FS Message-ID: <199705041635.SAA00228@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <199705041331.AA10923@iluvatar.unx.sas.com> from "John W. DeBoskey" at "May 4, 97 09:31:01 am"
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Hi,
> I'm trying to install to a 2nd disk from an up and running
> 3.0-CURRENT system.
>
> /stand/sysinstall
>
> I partition & label sd1 as normal. I've specified both
> / --> /mnt
> /usr --> /mnt/usr
> /var --> /mnt/var
>
> ie: I tried the install with /dev/sd0a mounted on /, and
> then on /mnt
Why do you think you have to mount the filesystems on /dev/sd0a?
They are already mounted when you start /stand/sysinstall.
I never tried it, but I would proceed as follows
o boot from your first disk as usual
Make sure the kernel is probing your second disk correctly.
If not you have to build a custom kernel with a driver configured for
the second disk and reboot the new kernel.
o Do
/stand/sysinstall
o Select Novice (that's what I would do, as I still consider myself as
a beginner)
o Select the second disk (sd1) as the target for your installation.
o Do fdisk and disklabelling as usual, but watch out for the installation
program trying to destroy your first disk erranously!
o Continue as usual but select "File System" as installation media type
and enter the path /home/FreeBSD when asked for the pathname.
If you steer through the installation this way, it *should* treat
the first disk as read only and the second disk as installation target.
> ps: On a different note, having been through the FreeBSD install
> process the 1st time about 6 months ago, I found the comments
> in /etc/sysconfig very helpful. Now? I never read them. Let's
> not make it too hard for initiates to install the system and
> get it up and running. I would, at a minimum, put a large comment
> block at either the top or bottom of rc.conf.
> --
I heartily disagree! This documentation should go into the handbook
and not clutter the configuration files.
Wolfgang
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