Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:04:54 -0600 From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> To: "Geert Hendrickx" <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? Message-ID: <012201c3e4de$8d0dcb70$0201a8c0@dredster> References: <65051.143.169.254.8.1075186122.squirrel@lori.mine.nu>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Geert Hendrickx" <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:48 AM Subject: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources? > 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'm used to doing this with Gentoo Linux: > With Gentoo, one extracts a "stage" tarball to the target partition, which > contains gcc, glibc and some other binary programs, just enough to rebuild > itself, using a "bootstrapping" script. Then one does "emerge system" > which fetches sources for the entire base system, compiles them and > installs them. After that, other applicantions can be installed with > "emerge packagename" (comparable to Ports system). > > Can I install FreeBSD in a similar way? Sysinstall only installs binary > packages. > > I am new to FreeBSD but not to building stuff from sources (I've been > using Gentoo Linux for quite a while now). > > Thanks in advance, > > GH > o Install from cd image and choose the package that includes all sources (with or without X-Windows depending on if you want a gui or not). o Synchronize your sources with cvs. o make world. All of the above is in the FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html -- Micheal Patterson Network Administration TSG Incorporated 405-917-0600
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