From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 1 13:06:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16628 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16623 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id NAA32656 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:06:21 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id NAA28158 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:06:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:05:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Installing from source to arbitrary directory Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My system is part IDE and part SCSI. The IDE part is mounted on / and the SCSI parts are mounted on /usr /var as well as holding the swap space. I have a 'root' partition on the SCSI that is dormant and empty until I get a SCSI bootable motherboard. I have this partition mounted on /mnt. I have the 3.0-RELEASE source in /usr/src. I have been thinking of upgrading to a new motherboard that can boot SCSI. I do not need to install /usr/src/usr.bin or /usr/src/usr.sbin. Those are already on my SCSI drive. How can I install only the '/' stuff and not the '/usr' to '/mnt' (the scsi) from source? Would it be better to just 'cp -R' the needed parts from my existing '/' to '/mnt'. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message