From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 09:06:42 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 BDB8616A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:06:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DC943D5D for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:06:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 4410 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2004 16:55:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 27 Jan 2004 16:55:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:56:35 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <20040127185635.2eeb675a@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <200401271631.i0RGVwV21819@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20040127175811.625435a4@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <200401271631.i0RGVwV21819@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 17:06:42 -0000 On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:31:56 -0500 (EST) Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > 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. yup. > A minimal distribution is a running system. yes Probably my English is not good enough ... either to write or to understand how what you are saying differs. > 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. Trying to do so since 2.2.x with some serious time gaps ;) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user