Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:08:37 -0700 From: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: best procedure for installing FreeBSD from CVS sources onto a machine without CDROM/floppy/netboot? Message-ID: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLOELLDNAA.jonathan@graehl.org>
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I have a FreeBSD machine with world and kernel sources. I would like to put a hard drive into this machine, and build a bootable system based on my /usr/src. I assume that it would be possible to do installworld and installkernel with an appropriate destination path, after partitioning the new drive. What steps exactly are necessary, including making the drive bootable? This would also be the fastest installation method if you have a slow network or CDROM drive. After this process, it should be possible to put this hard drive into a bare machine (perhaps I built a kernel especially for it), and have it up and running. Another question: is it possible to make a bootable DOS hard drive with the release files, put that drive in a bare machine, and successfully install from there (it is with Linux) - I assume that since you can install from a DOS prompt with a release CD in the drive, it should work choosing "DOS" as your installation media? Another question (mostly academic): what is the simplest process to make a CDROM image from /usr/src/release ? please cc: jonathan@graehl.org (I'm just doing a CDROM install of 4.3rc2 for now, but I would like to know other ways of bootstrapping a new FreeBSD box) -- Jonathan Graehl http://jonathan.graehl.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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