From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 4 22:24:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from metriclient-1.uoregon.edu (metriclient-1.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D3B15364 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by metriclient-1.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.8.7) id WAA13925; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990904222342.55512@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:23:42 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Mike Nowlin Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "proxy" make installworld References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Nowlin on Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 12:24:31AM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Nowlin scribbled this message on Sep 5: > I keep running into problems with file flags, missing files, etc. when I > try to do an installworld on the diskless machines (with /usr/src and > /usr/obj NFS-mounted from the server)... hmmm... I've done this before, but it's been over a year... > Is there any way that I can tell the server to do an installworld, but > give it a different directory than / to "base" the install on? (I want it > to use /tftpboot/holly, for example.) I probably could do something with > chroot(8), but that introduces other problems with having to duplicate > lots of directories. make installworld DESTDIR=/tftpboot/holly should do it for you... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message