Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:38:29 +1000 From: Lucas James <Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: John Clark <jclark@metricsystems.com> Subject: Re: Building an /etc from scratch... Message-ID: <200703310938.29856.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> In-Reply-To: <460D930B.1090309@metricsystems.com> References: <460D930B.1090309@metricsystems.com>
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On Saturday 31 March 2007 08:45, John Clark wrote: G'Day John, > How does one create an /etc from src/etc. There does not seem to be a > make target in > the main Makefile at the top of the hierarchy. > A couple of points here... I don't have a 'working' FreeBSD system at > the moment, and > because of failures to boot off of a USB CDROM device, I don't have the > usual 'installer' > running. I was able to use the pxeboot via BOOTP to get a diskless > system up and running > and was able to compile the world, and GENERIC kernel via this mode. > However, building the /etc directory seems to not have much support in > terms of Makefile > references. once you have installed world+kernel, you can: make distribute DESTDIR=/path/to/your/broken/system/root from /usr/src (gleaned from the how to setup a jail directory tree in jail(8) regards, Lucas -- I think... I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check. -- Escher
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