Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:46:34 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading a removable disk installation Message-ID: <47C81ACA.5010800@ibctech.ca>
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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
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