Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 04:02:44 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs Message-ID: <F5.B1.21955.4A0B4BF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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from Polytropon: > In case you need to do more than one additional installation, > you should consider creating a tar archive of the fully installed > system and then use tar --unlink to the mounted target. If you > need to create many bootable systems from scratch, a script > performing the disklabel, newfs, mount and tar steps should > be easy to write. I don't want more than one additional installation, and might do that one only once. But if I wanted to create many bootable systems from scratch, I could create an installation image, ISO or memstick. > > Subsequently I would also want to build for i386, but this > > would be after the amd64 build and installation/update. > In case you're creating different TARGET= architectures, > the fun doubles. :-) I think only one build machine is used to create FreeBSD snapshots? You can 'make universe'? I guess the fun more than doubles when I try to create a NetBSD installation cross-building from FreeBSD, or a Cross-Linux-from-Scratch. Consider that NetBSD has been unstable on my new computer even with a binary installation. > > It would be nice if bsdinstall had an option for update as > > well as fresh install. > This step can easily be performed manually using freebsd-update > right after installation. I think freebsd-update is for a binary upgrade from the freebsd.org servers? Tom
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