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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Install from FS
In-Reply-To: <199705041331.AA10923@iluvatar.unx.sas.com> from "John W. DeBoskey" at "May 4, 97 09:31:01 am"
To: jwd@unx.sas.com (John W. DeBoskey)
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 18:35:22 +0200 (MET DST)
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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