Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:31:56 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: itetcu@apropo.ro (Ion-Mihai Tetcu) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? Message-ID: <200401271631.i0RGVwV21819@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040127175811.625435a4@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> from "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" at Jan 27, 2004 05:58:11 PM
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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. The source is much larger than the installation of the running system. A minimal distribution is a running system. FreeBSD is organized a little differently from LINUX. CHeck it out a little bit and maybe you will see the efficiency of the way it is done. ////jerry > > > > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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