Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:23:42 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "proxy" make installworld Message-ID: <19990904222342.55512@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9909050016250.5969-100000@jason.argos.org>; from Mike Nowlin on Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 12:24:31AM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9909050016250.5969-100000@jason.argos.org>
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Mike Nowlin scribbled this message on Sep 5: > I keep running into problems with file flags, missing files, etc. when I > try to do an installworld on the diskless machines (with /usr/src and > /usr/obj NFS-mounted from the server)... hmmm... I've done this before, but it's been over a year... > Is there any way that I can tell the server to do an installworld, but > give it a different directory than / to "base" the install on? (I want it > to use /tftpboot/holly, for example.) I probably could do something with > chroot(8), but that introduces other problems with having to duplicate > lots of directories. make installworld DESTDIR=/tftpboot/holly should do it for you... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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