[despammed] Re: Looking for detailed documentation: Install to existing filesystem

[denisz]

here's something you might get interested (see live-install section)

http://www.the-labs.com/FreeBSD/

-denisz-

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:52:54 -0700, Avleen Vig <lists- 
freebsd at silverwraith.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:36:41PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've posted this request to 'questions' with no response, so now I'll
>> ask 'hackers'.
>>
>> I'm a hobbyist, and for my personal education, I would like to learn how
>> to install FBSD from an existing filesystem, rather than from FTP or CD.
>>
>> My intention is to copy the files to a directory on the second HDD of my
>> present FBSD system, and point sysinstall to that partition/directory
>> during the install.
>
> This may not answer the questions you posed, but it may be a good start
> for you.
>
> You have two options i can think of, if you want to mimic a traditional
> /stand/sysinstall installation process.
> 1) install an FTP server, and choose an FTP install.
> 2) export the hard drive over NFS, and use that.
>
> Or, a better way which I would recommend:
> download the source code, and put if on the second drive. We'll assume
> /usr/src and /usr/obj are mounted on the *second* hard drive.
>
> Run something like this:
> cd /usr/src
> make buildworld <a flag>*
> * the '<a flag>' is a flag I don't recall off the top of my head, but
> * it lets you change which drive / other mounted location, the new
> * build is installed to. Maybe someone else can help here?
> make buildkernel
>
> then when you want to install to a third hard drive, mount it as the
> location give in '<a flag>' to make on the previous step, then run:
> make make installkernel
> make installworld
> mergemaster
>
> that should isntall the compiled sources to the new drive pretty
> quickly.
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