From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 22 15:38:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mighty.grot.org (mighty.grot.org [216.15.97.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95BA37B4EC for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:38:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@grot.org) Received: by mighty.grot.org (Postfix, from userid 998) id 599015DCB; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:38:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:38:28 -0800 From: lists To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing onto a new drive from a running system Message-ID: <20010222153828.A70988@mighty.grot.org> Reply-To: lists@lists.grot.org References: <20010222152655.A70899@mighty.grot.org> <14997.41233.433901.457458@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14997.41233.433901.457458@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:30:25PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:30:25PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > lists types: > > Is there a way to put a fresh FreeBSD installation onto a second harddrive in > > a running system that doesn't involve booting from floppies or CD or using yet > > another drive and dd? If I've missed the documentation that specifies this > > procedure, I would appreciate a pointer. > > I don't know if it's documented anywhere, but you can build a system > from sources and have the results installed in an arbitrary directory. So would that install everything? that is, all I should have to do is newfs and install boot blocks before a make installworld to something like /mnt? Adi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message