From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 09:31:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2BF16A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt19.cluster1.charter.net (remt19.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EC343FF7 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from [66.168.145.25] (HELO moe) by remt19.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 137025967; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:31:21 -0400 From: "Charles Howse" To: "'Montaro'" Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:31:09 -0500 Message-ID: <005c01c36cb8$9f461b60$04fea8c0@moe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <003901c36cb7$02980cc0$0300a8c0@lan.sixlabs.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Looking for detailed documentation: Install to existingfilesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:31:24 -0000 > If you mounted ad3s1e on /disk2 > and on /disk2 was freebsd/ with the distrobution files in it, I am > suspecting you would be telling sysinstall to look to=20 > /disk2/freebsd rather > than /dev/ad3s1e/freebsd since /dev/ad3s1e/ is just the=20 > device not the acual > mounted file system. >=20 > Hope this helps. With all due respect, are you sure about that? Here's why I ask... Since I booted from the CD (or I could have opted to boot from the floppies), and went through the entire install process, creating partitions and slices, the fact that I created a new mount point for /dev/ades1e on /disk2 would lead me to believe that /disk2 would not be mounted at that point, therefore the distfiles would not be available. Now, I'm sure they would be available if I had started sysinstall from my running FBSD system, but that's not what I'm after here. I'm looking to learn how to install from an existing filesystem when (for example) the computer won't boot the operating system. Does that make sense?