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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:14:21 +0100
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?
Message-ID:  <20040131111421.GA90536@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <200401301600.26675.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
References:  <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu> <20040127132431.GC62456@ei.bzerk.org> <200401301600.26675.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:00:26PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx typed:
> > Can you build Gentoo on a machine currently NOT running Linux?
> 
> Yes, you can boot Gentoo from a live-cd, you extract a "temporary" 
> Gentoo-system to your harddisk, chroot into it and start recompiling from 
> there.  
 
This comes down to a difference of opinion. In my view, a machine
booted from a (Linux) live-cd IS running Linux.
You can do the same thing on FreeBSD, but I really don't see the point.

> GH
> 
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