From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 22 15:42:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABAE237B401 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 47337 invoked by uid 100); 22 Feb 2001 23:42:12 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14997.41940.74796.428040@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:42:12 -0600 To: lists@lists.grot.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing onto a new drive from a running system In-Reply-To: <20010222153828.A70988@mighty.grot.org> References: <20010222152655.A70899@mighty.grot.org> <14997.41233.433901.457458@guru.mired.org> <20010222153828.A70988@mighty.grot.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lists types: > 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? make installworld doesn't install everything. For instance, it doesn't install the config files in /etc. There may be other things missing as well. I did this about 6 months ago, so it can be done. I just don't remember the details. Sorry. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message