From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 19:38:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB2837B405 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 19:38:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19480; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 19:38:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF9852F.9070001@owt.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 19:38:39 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tyler spivey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd from source? References: <20020602015735.OVFH7991.priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 tyler spivey wrote: > well, i come from a linux from scratch (lfs) background, where i > install the base and everything else from source. i'm wondering > if it is possible to install the base system of freebsd from my > custom burned 4.4 cds, but compile the ports i need from source > instead of using the ports system? i'm not comfortable with it > yet, and if i install, say, someport, i don't know what it's > trying to do, so i can't see if it's doing somethingi don't want > it to. You can choose what you install and the way. I installed the first OS from a CD but everything else was upgraded using cvsup. There is more to it than just installing a port. Many of them have patches that make them work on FreeBSD. FreeBSD does things a little bit different as to where they are installed. The maintainer takes care of this for you. If the port has patches and you try to install it as a non-port, you will have to figure out the fixes on your own. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message