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. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
