From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 15:13:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1765B1065670 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0048FC17 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:13:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 7660 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Feb 2008 14:46:25 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 0.072052 secs); 29 Feb 2008 14:46:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Feb 2008 14:46:24 -0000 Message-ID: <47C81ACA.5010800@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:46:34 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Upgrading a removable disk installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:13:07 -0000 Hi all, I have a couple of systems that run from USB thumb sticks. These machines run 6.2. I'd like to do a typical source upgrade to 7.0 on a test machine. To do this, I plug the USB disk into a 'host' machine, and to save space on the thumb drive, I csup the sources to the standard locations on the host machine. My thumb drive 'OS' slice is mounted as /var/removable-os on the host machine. What I am unclear about is how I go about telling buildworld etc on the host machine. that I want to install the updates to the /var/removable-os location, instead of the default '/'. I know how to do this with sysinstall, but I'm not sure if I need to put an entry into /etc/make.conf, or use a command-line switch to get my desired results. Can someone please help clarify how I go about this? Steve