From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 05:23:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3629B16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 05:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D9143D3F for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 05:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0RDOVIn063083; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:24:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0RDOV9m063082; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:24:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail25@bzerk.org using -f Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:24:31 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Geert Hendrickx Message-ID: <20040127132431.GC62456@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Geert Hendrickx , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:23:10 -0000 On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:48:42AM +0100, Geert Hendrickx typed: > Hello, > > "FreeBSD from Scratch" describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system > entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. > > But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT > running FreeBSD. How can I do this? Can you build Gentoo on a machine currently NOT running Linux? > I'm used to doing this with Gentoo Linux: > With Gentoo, one extracts a "stage" tarball to the target partition, which > contains gcc, glibc and some other binary programs, just enough to rebuild > itself, using a "bootstrapping" script. Then one does "emerge system" > which fetches sources for the entire base system, compiles them and > installs them. After that, other applicantions can be installed with > "emerge packagename" (comparable to Ports system). > > Can I install FreeBSD in a similar way? Sysinstall only installs binary > packages. > > I am new to FreeBSD but not to building stuff from sources (I've been > using Gentoo Linux for quite a while now). > > Thanks in advance, > > GH > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"