From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 06:59:14 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 0040016A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from lori.mine.nu (21.54-136-217.adsl.skynet.be [217.136.54.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D851443D67 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:59:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be) Received: from lori.mine.nu (unknown [192.168.1.210]) by lori.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A3013A6F; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:46:06 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Hendrickx To: Ruben de Groot Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:00:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> <20040127132431.GC62456@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040127132431.GC62456@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401301600.26675.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> 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: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:59:14 -0000 > Can you build Gentoo on a machine currently NOT running Linux? Yes, you can boot Gentoo from a live-cd, you extract a "temporary" Gentoo-system to your harddisk, chroot into it and start recompiling from there. GH -- powered by FreeBSD