Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:02:27 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive? Message-ID: <25353177.761235772142866.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> In-Reply-To: <6710317.721235763191703.JavaMail.HALO$@halo>
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> That's my problem in a nutshell ultimately--how do I tell sysinstall where my target root is? It impacts the whole > session, including packageAdd commands. I did a bit of snooping around the distribution and I see that each directory has a simple install script to install base, the kernel, manpages, and do on, and they all use DESTDIR to point to the location where the system is being installed. So I don't need to use sysinstall at all, I'll just call these install scripts directly and that will do exactly what I want...
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