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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...

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