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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:50:07 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to change installworld installation root directory?
Message-ID:  <200212171750.07541.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021217155100.GB34511@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
References:  <Pine.A41.4.10.10212171740040.45200-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> <20021217155100.GB34511@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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On Tuesday 17 December 2002 07:51 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:40:59PM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> > Is it possible to mount a hard drive and make installworld so that
> > the installation will install everything under this directory where
> > the hard drive is mounted? Something like /mnt instead of / for
> > example?
>
> Sure:
>
>     make installworld DESTDIR=3D/mnt
>
> installs everything relative to /mnt instead of / --- see jail(8) for
> some examples of doing just that.
>

What I do is create /usr/src and /usr/obj as their own 1.5 GB=20
partitions. That is 4-5x larger than I need. Then, I can NFS_mount them=20
on any system as /usr/src and /usr/obj. You don't have to play games=20
with names, DESTDIR, or etc.=20

For the purpose of build speed I put them on HDs with their own UDMA=20
controllers.

Kent

--=20
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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