Hi,

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:50:07PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 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=/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 
> partitions. That is 4-5x larger than I need. Then, I can NFS_mount them 
> on any system as /usr/src and /usr/obj. You don't have to play games 
> with names, DESTDIR, or etc. 

why would you want /usr/obj nfs mounted as well?

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



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