From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 14 11:28:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 388CD5D9 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:28:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A7821FF for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [74.130.196.19] ([74.130.196.19:50578] helo=localhost) by cdptpa-oedge01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 62/0E-02506-E30B4825; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:13:02 +0000 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:13:02 +0000 Message-ID: <62.0E.02506.E30B4825@cdptpa-oedge01> From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Source tree and ports tree on Linux file system? X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.118:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:28:06 -0000 Can FreeBSD build from source with source tree on Linux ext2fs partition, and subsequently compile ports from such partition, using USB-stick installation of FreeBSD 9.x? That would be useful if FreeBSD Ethernet driver doesn't work. This is mainly a matter of curiosity, since I used a NetBSD-current amd64 installation, where the Ethernet driver worked, with subversion built from pkgsrc. In this latter case, file system was ffsv2 aka UFS2. Tom