From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 08:33:18 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 9C70216A501 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:33:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DBE43D48 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:32:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i0RGVwV21819; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:31:58 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200401271631.i0RGVwV21819@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: itetcu@apropo.ro (Ion-Mihai Tetcu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:31:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20040127175811.625435a4@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> from "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" at Jan 27, 2004 05:58:11 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu cc: Geert Hendrickx 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 16:33:18 -0000 > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:19:33 +0200 > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET) > > "Geert Hendrickx" wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > I believe you can boot from the second (Live) CD, fdisk, label, newfs, > > mount partitions, extract the sources, cvsup and start building. I > > didn't try it, but it should work. > > > I don't see why would you do that, > > but ... > > I mean why not install first a minimal distribution set with the sources > and do the hole thing from hdd. The source is much larger than the installation of the running system. A minimal distribution is a running system. FreeBSD is organized a little differently from LINUX. CHeck it out a little bit and maybe you will see the efficiency of the way it is done. ////jerry > > > > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user > _______________________________________________ > 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" >