Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive?

2009-02-27 Thread Peter Steele
Can I run sysinstall on a live system, booted say from ad0 and use it to install a new OS onto a second drive, say ad1? I'm trying to do something like this: sysinstall configFile=install.cfg loadConfig where I have the target drive identified in the sysinstall script, but it doesn't seem

Re: Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive?

2009-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:43:54AM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: Can I run sysinstall on a live system, booted say from ad0 and use it to install a new OS onto a second drive, say ad1? I'm trying to do something like this: sysinstall configFile=install.cfg loadConfig where I have the

Re: Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive?

2009-02-27 Thread Mel
On Friday 27 February 2009 08:48:39 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:43:54AM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: Can I run sysinstall on a live system, booted say from ad0 and use it to install a new OS onto a second drive, say ad1? I'm trying to do something like this:

Re: Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive?

2009-02-27 Thread Peter Steele
Yes for sure. You can partition secondary drives on a running system as long as the drive isn't mounted and your kern.securelevel 2. It's -1, so I assume that's okay. You will need to define doesn't seem to like what I'm trying to do to get a more constructive answer. Yeah, that wasn't

Re: Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive?

2009-02-27 Thread Peter Steele
That's my problem in a nutshell ultimately--how do I tell sysinstall where my target root is? It impacts the whole session, including packageAdd commands. I did a bit of snooping around the distribution and I see that each directory has a simple install script to install base, the kernel,