From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 05:23:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B1216A6F4 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 05:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0E943D39 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 05:23:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 31519 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2004 13:18:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 27 Jan 2004 13:18:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:19:33 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: "Geert Hendrickx" Message-Id: <20040127151933.5058d6c9@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> References: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:23:34 -0000 On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET) "Geert Hendrickx" wrote: > Hello, > > "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system > entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. > > But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT > running FreeBSD. How can I do this? I believe you can boot from the second (Live) CD, fdisk, label, newfs, mount partitions, extract the sources, cvsup and start building. I didn't try it, but it should work. I don't see why would you do that, but ... -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user