From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 11:36:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA23106 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23075 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:35:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA08362; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:35:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:35:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Kenneth R. Westerback" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2R 'make install' in /usr/src/release/sysinstall In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Kenneth R. Westerback wrote: > After getting src-2.2-0213 I thought I would try to compile just a piece > of the world and settled on sysinstall. > > I cd'ed to /usr/src/release/sysinstall (as root) and did 'make'. This > worked fine to all appearances so I did 'make install'. This produced the > error message: > > install -c -s -o bin -g bin -m 555 sysinstall > usage: install [-CcDps] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file1 file2 > install [-CcDps] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file1 ... > fileN directory > install -d [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ... Hm, the destination directory is missing. You can just copy sysinstall to where you want it to go and chmod 5555 sysinstall and chown bin:bin sysinstall to get the same functionality. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major