From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 12:19:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ish7.ericsson.com.au (ish7.ericsson.com.au [203.61.155.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B9837B49B for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from brsf10.epa.ericsson.se (igw2.ericsson.com.au [203.61.155.10]) by ish7.ericsson.com.au (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g27KHGv10086 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:17:16 +1100 (EST) Received: from eaubrnt019.epa.ericsson.se (eaubrnt019.epa.ericsson.se [146.11.9.165]) by brsf10.epa.ericsson.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA19669 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:18:44 +1100 (EST) Received: by eaubrnt019.epa.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:18:44 +1100 Message-ID: From: "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Installation question Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:18:33 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C1C615.4138F830" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1C615.4138F830 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi All, When you are installing FreeBSD onto an i386 box, is there any way to build the packages from source, rather than by binary packages. Does the installer do this, or is there a version of FreeBSD for i386 available that can do this. I've tried 'Linux From Scratch' and 'Gentoo' and want to try building FreeBSD from source as well. Any sugggestions? Cheers. Craig Williamson ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1C615.4138F830 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD Installation question

Hi All,

        When you = are installing FreeBSD onto an i386 box, is there any way to build the = packages from source, rather than by binary packages.  Does the = installer do this, or is there a version of FreeBSD for i386 available = that can do this.  I've tried 'Linux From Scratch' and 'Gentoo' = and want to try building FreeBSD from source as well.  Any = sugggestions?  Cheers.

Craig Williamson

------_=_NextPart_001_01C1C615.4138F830-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message