From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 27 00:39:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA26062 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:39:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA26057 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00270; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:39:14 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA10768; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:31:51 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:31:51 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP References: <3.0.32.19970126213102.00beb100@dimaga.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Andreas Klemm on Jan 27, 1997 08:24:48 +0100 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andreas Klemm wrote: > I tried a month ago to install a FreeBSD system on a separate SCSI > drive from within a running FreeBSD. I'm about writing an article > about FreeBSD and this would be a fine possibility, to make some > snapshots of the installation screen using xgrab. Btw., you can now (X11R6.1) use xterm-color as your TERM variable, this should yield you colors resembling the normal installation screen. > Unfortunately everything runs fine up to the point, when the OS > gets written to disk, since it overwrites my own disk instead of > writing to the 3rd SCSI disk, which was dedicated for installation. > > Any clue or idea, how to make that possible ??? Unfortunately, sysinstall depends many many things on the fact whether it is run as init(8) (true installation session) or not (post- installation session). Maybe a partial help for you: /stand/sysinstall -fake. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)