Mike Nowlin scribbled this message on Sep 5:
> I keep running into problems with file flags, missing files, etc. when I
> try to do an installworld on the diskless machines (with /usr/src and
> /usr/obj NFS-mounted from the server)...
hmmm... I've done this before, but it's been over a year...
> Is there any way that I can tell the server to do an installworld, but
> give it a different directory than / to "base" the install on? (I want it
> to use /tftpboot/holly, for example.) I probably could do something with
> chroot(8), but that introduces other problems with having to duplicate
> lots of directories.
make installworld DESTDIR=/tftpboot/holly
should do it for you...
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