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Subject: Re: FreeBSD from Scratch
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On Friday 04 August 2006 15:59, Jona Joachim wrote:
> Rich Mayo wrote:
> > Is anyone on the list familiar with the "Linux from Scratch" project?
> > More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a "FreeBSD
> > from Scratch" project??
>
> You may find this interesting:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index
>.html

Although, it's nothing like "Linux from Scratch". IIRC it's a way of updating 
into alternate system partitions to avoid leaving old files behind after an 
update.