Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:21:08 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a removable disk installation Message-ID: <47C822E4.3020902@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <47C81ACA.5010800@ibctech.ca> References: <47C81ACA.5010800@ibctech.ca>
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Steve Bertrand wrote: > 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 Use DESTDIR for installkernel and installworld. This is documented in the build(7) manual page. Use the -D parameter for mergemaster.
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