From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 09:56:12 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 3162316A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.30.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B4243FBF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from montaro@sixlabs.org) Received: from montaro3 (211.26.68.2) by smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.018) id 3F4C093C0002A505 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:56:09 +1000 Message-ID: <00a801c36cbc$17d8ee10$0300a8c0@lan.sixlabs.org> From: "Montaro" To: References: <005c01c36cb8$9f461b60$04fea8c0@moe> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:55:59 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 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 16:56:12 -0000 During the installation It loads a holographic terminal on ttyv4 i think? I can't remember off hand if this is before or after the medium has started copying I'm hoping (for your sake) it is before... Anyway, that is where I mean't for you to mount the file system, it will be mounted for the duration of the installation.. Sorry for any confusion, I hope this helps? -- Cheers, Josh Sixlabs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Howse" To: "'Montaro'" Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:31 AM Subject: RE: Looking for detailed documentation: Install to existingfilesystem > 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 > /disk2/freebsd rather > than /dev/ad3s1e/freebsd since /dev/ad3s1e/ is just the > device not the acual > mounted file system. > > 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?