Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:58:11 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? Message-ID: <20040127175811.625435a4@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040127151933.5058d6c9@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> <20040127151933.5058d6c9@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:19:33 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET) > "Geert Hendrickx" <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> 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 ... I mean why not install first a minimal distribution set with the sources and do the hole thing from hdd. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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