From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 28 16:14:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBDD537B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:14:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53D243E4A for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gBT0E3c74175 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:14:03 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:14:03 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: installworld with /src /obj on CDs Message-ID: <20021229111403.W434@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does installworld work these days with read-only /src and/or /obj filesystems? I want to upgrade a few isolated FreeBSD machines that have tiny disks. My plan is to put each of /src and /obj on CDROMs, copy the contents of one onto the hard disk (if it will fit!), and read the other from /mnt as we go. In the past we were surprised to discover that one or both of these filesystems had to be writeable for some tiny annoying reason which I don't quite recall. The easiest thing would be if I could copy only a small necessary part of /src to the hard disk, then have /obj read-only in the CD drive... but now I'm getting too optimistic. Has anyone tried something like this? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message