Date: 13 Oct 2001 18:11:51 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: current list <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best way to get a system on current? Message-ID: <xzpr8s7h648.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20011012111534.C49550@luke.immure.com> References: <20011012111534.C49550@luke.immure.com>
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Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes: > I am interested in what is the best way to get a test system running > current? If you can move the disk to another machine, just disklabel and newfs it manually, then download a -CURRENT snapshot and install at the bin distribution manually, then build the rest from sources. Assuming the disk you're installing to is /dev/ad2: # dd count=20 </dev/zero >/dev/ad2 # disklabel -rw ad2 auto # disklabel -e ad2 [edit the label] # newfs -U -c 22 /dev/ad2a [repeat for every partition you created] # mount /dev/ad2a /mnt # mkdir /mnt/var /mnt/usr [mount /mnt/var, /mnt/usr etc.] # mkdir -p /tmp/dist/bin # cd /tmp/dist # pftp -a current.freebsd.org ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/5.0-20011012-CURRENT ftp> prompt ftp> binary ftp> mget bin ftp> quit # cd bin # env DESTDIR=/mnt sh install.sh [answer yes] # disklabel -B -b /mnt/boot/boot1 -s /mnt/boot/boot2 ad2 # ln /mnt/kernel.GENERIC /mnt/kernel [unmount everything, power down] [move the disk back to the other machine and boot] [download a -CURRENT source tree or the repo] [make world and kernel] DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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