Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:56:35 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? 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>
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:31:56 -0500 (EST) Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:19:33 +0200 > > Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET) > > > "Geert Hendrickx" <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> 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
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