Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:41:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop), freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU Message-ID: <200105031541.f43Ff5l38811@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 May 2001 09:30:59 EDT." <200105031331.JAA00559@scarlet.my.domain> References: <200105031331.JAA00559@scarlet.my.domain>
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In message <200105031331.JAA00559@scarlet.my.domain> User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas writes:
: Is there a way to install without sysinstall. In netbsd I can drop into
: a shell and run fdisk, swapctl, and then disklabel to get the disk set up
: with partitions and swap space to take some of the load off of the small
: memory. If I compiled a small kernel on my workstation using only the
: components in the laptop and getting rid of everything but the bare
: essentials I believe I could but this small kernel on a floppy and maybe do
: it that way(there was a thread on this in questions referring to an article
: at FreeBSDDiary, I'll have to check it out). Of course all of this depends
: on whether I can install sans sysinstall. Has anyone done an install without
: it? This would be like doing FreeBSD from scratch(sounds like a good learning
: experience).
I routinely do the following:
pull the disk from the system I want FreeBSD to run in.
put it in a desktop
fdisk/disklabel it
mount it (/new)
cd /usr/src
make -f Makefile.inc1 hierarchy DESTDIR=/new
cd etc
make distribution DESTDIR=/new
cd ..
make installworld DESTDIR=/new
Warner
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