Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:14:21 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? Message-ID: <20040131111421.GA90536@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <200401301600.26675.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> References: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> <20040127132431.GC62456@ei.bzerk.org> <200401301600.26675.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:00:26PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx typed: > > 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. This comes down to a difference of opinion. In my view, a machine booted from a (Linux) live-cd IS running Linux. You can do the same thing on FreeBSD, but I really don't see the point. > GH > > -- > powered by FreeBSD >
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