From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 00:12:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CC716A473 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au (vscan02.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E8113C44B for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733F411D8DC; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:40:10 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan02.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22765-01; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:38:21 +0800 (WST) Received: from mail.ldjcs.com.au (gw.ldjcs.com.au [58.6.71.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B8611EFFF; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:38:20 +0800 (WST) Received: from mail.ldjcs.com.au (mail.ldjcs.com.au [IPv6:2001:388:c069::4]) by mail.ldjcs.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2UNcUsR039344; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:38:31 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au) From: Lucas James Organization: LDJ Computer Services To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:38:29 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <460D930B.1090309@metricsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <460D930B.1090309@metricsystems.com> X-Face: e#5HTm!2AOnnlvY27|AK6.`J(ChPFkY3HW!e4V4wR['1cgNGkM]jcez{.k&'BU<=?utf-8?q?9PXMyZV=0A=09I=5DY6?=(=?utf-8?q?=3B=7Bf4=3BJ=24YOdl4=2E72fZ7j=5D=5FFLF=5EmMP=25V4=5Du=2E=3FX?= =?utf-8?q?U=5CTEgmbQ=23Xz=3BNpIa=3DGa=25z=7BvzRD=3A=5Da=0A=09ag5GR3cU3Amx?=>{B~V]n#Ost[Y2G+%5, KIt%?Bl6+nV55<6D> =?utf-8?q?=3AUJde!=23a=25Qq=7DAjbLUF13P/=0A=099e+eKK?=)bHSAwJub}Kw80RW&i$lZ[e{%uSGh{3%?eq#YghK|y8r.N, ~6@'_#, =?utf-8?q?MC-w=7DJB-5W=0A=09=3A/w?=,dDT'sHeU{nws)>E; 3Tk@Tm38Ju~)VhS; FSDz*VbetRLV{ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703310938.29856.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on mail.ldjcs.com.au Cc: John Clark Subject: Re: Building an /etc from scratch... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:12:58 -0000 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