Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:17:33 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: building a OS Message-ID: <20080810181733.GE6648@torus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <292552.68067.qm@web55105.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <292552.68067.qm@web55105.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 02:24:19AM -0700, Marshall wrote: > hi, > I would like some help. I want to make my own build, > how do I? What tools do I need? is there a stripped > down to the base I use and add the apps I want? I'm > not sure how to go about it. I don't want to be a new > distro or anything like that, I just want to build for > me. > thanks > Marshall That's quite an ambitious task. The first thing to do is to reread the Handbook (you have read it already, haven't you?), and then take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html As for stripped down systems, there are a number of approaches. Search Google for things like minibsd, picobsd, nanobsd. There are plenty of pages out there. Good luck! Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkifML0ACgkQixf5fBYiFmptHwCeMbApj7Uj6BPqm4v5KGsgeN9n bOMAoLY7+nfUTIYvDDhIY+sWGfmVqXMU =zNUe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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