Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:16:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: jcwells@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from source to arbitrary directory Message-ID: <199812012116.PAA22368@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812011231520.4712-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> from "Jason C. Wells" at "Dec 1, 98 01:05:53 pm"
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In a previous message, Jason C. Wells said: > 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'. dump -0f - / | (cd /mnt;restore -rf -) > 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 > -- ON THE ROLE OF BEAUTY AND HANDSOMENESS IN LOVE "It isn't always just how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." --Brian, age 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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