from Polytropon:
> In case you need to do more than one additional installation,
> you should consider creating a tar archive of the fully installed
> system and then use tar --unlink to the mounted target. If you
> need to create many bootable systems from scratch, a script
> performing the diskl
On Wed, 16 May 2012 18:46:28 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > > The idea was to "make buildkernel" once and "make buildworld" once
> > > and install to two different DESTDIRs.
>
> > I'm not sure I understand: The two install* targets ("make installkernel"
> > and "make installworld") are only able
> > The idea was to "make buildkernel" once and "make buildworld" once
> > and install to two different DESTDIRs.
> I'm not sure I understand: The two install* targets ("make installkernel"
> and "make installworld") are only able to install to _one_ location,
> which is the _default_ location *or
On Wed, 16 May 2012 03:13:10 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > > Better to "make buildkernel" and "make installkernel" as two
> > > separate steps, rather than "make kernel"?
>
> > Yes. You only need to "make buildkernel" once, then "make installkernel"
> > for both $DESTDIRs.
>
> The idea was to
> > Better to "make buildkernel" and "make installkernel" as two
> > separate steps, rather than "make kernel"?
> Yes. You only need to "make buildkernel" once, then "make installkernel"
> for both $DESTDIRs.
The idea was to "make buildkernel" once and "make buildworld" once and install
to two d
On Mon, 14 May 2012 20:45:51 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I guess after the first installkernel, to default location,
> I should immediately make installkernel again, this time with
> DESTDIR=/mnt?
That should be possible, you only have to make sure that both
"install targets" are fine with the
> What exactly went wrong? Setting DESTDIR is the correct way to do this
> sort of thing. You only need to set it when running the installworld or
> installkernel steps though -- there's nothing that gets compiled into
> /usr/obj which prevents you from installing into a different than normal
> t
I would like to build FreeBSD to install in two places: regular hard drive and
also on a USB stick, probably 8 GB.
USB stick install would be for backup, in case something goes awry with a later
update, then I have something to fall back on; could also install tools such as
gdisk to use on har
On 14/05/2012 00:10, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I tried make installkernel and make installworld, but those didn't
> fully work right the second time, with DESTDIR=/mnt (USB stick main
> partition).
What exactly went wrong? Setting DESTDIR is the correct way to do this
sort of thing. You only need
I would like to build FreeBSD to install in two places: regular hard drive and
also on a USB stick, probably 8 GB.
USB stick install would be for backup, in case something goes awry with a later
update, then I have something to fall back on; could also install tools such as
gdisk to use on hard
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