Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: zAfi <nietonfir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] installing prefix on an external disk
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:57:39
Message-Id: 10dd6e220907052257vd0e0e01x1e243b2830b87fcf@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] installing prefix on an external disk by mattmatteh@mac.com
1 2009/7/6 <mattmatteh@×××.com>:
2 > I was attempting to install prefix on an external disk and boot strapping
3 > with non absolute path fails.  on linux the disk usually shows up as sda or
4 > sdb, i could try to mount by UUID so its the same each time, or just mount
5 > to /mnt/prefix.  not sure how can do this on osx.  any suggestions ?
6 Use vifs [1], it should take standard /etc/fstab syntax (and mount it by UUID).
7
8 > my laptop doesnt have much space and i dont know how much life is left on
9 > the internal disk.
10 >
11 > matt
12
13 Good luck. ;)
14
15 zAfi
16
17 [1] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/vifs.8.html