Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:15:01 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel Message-ID: <20131008141501.GA69028@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <3F.9A.16944.166A3525@cdptpa-oedge02> References: <3F.9A.16944.166A3525@cdptpa-oedge02>
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 06:29:53AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> From $SRCDIR/UPDATING
>
> To cross-install current onto a separate partition
> --------------------------------------------------
> # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
> # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition
> # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
> # size.
>
> <make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
> <boot into -stable>
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
> <maybe newfs current's root partition>
> <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
> make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
> make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
> make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
> cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd
> <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
> <reboot into current>
> <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
> <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
> <reboot>
>
> This part seems not to have changed so far from RELENG_9 to HEAD.
>
> I failed on "make installworld DESTDIR=/BETA1 |& tee installworld.log"
>
> ERROR: Required unbound user is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING
>
> How am I supposed to have an unbound user on a partition where there is no existing FreeBSD installation?
>
> Like the job market, where one needs to have two or more years experience, but how to get that first job?
>
> I tried
> mergemaster -p -m /BETA1/usr/src -D /BETA1
> on thin air, managed to get a master.passwd that included unbound user, but
> make installworld DESTDIR=/BETA1
> failed immediately for lack of unbound user it couldn't find.
>
> I also tried
> make distribution DESTDIR=/BETA1
> (and distributeworld too), no joy:
> Target directory, either /BETA1/etc or /BETA1/etc/atf, does not exist.
>
> There is a bug in $SRCDIR/UPDATING in the part about cross-installing current onto a separate partition.
>
> I even tried copying /etc directory from USB stick to /BETA1/etc before running mergemaster, but that also failed.
>
> But this was no barrier when I built and installed FreeBSD 9-stable i386 on a USB stick, mounted as /compat/i386.
>
> From https://wiki.freebsd.org/i386-Wine
>
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildworld TARGET=i386
> # make installworld TARGET=i386 DESTDIR=/compat/i386
> # make distribution TARGET=i386 DESTDIR=/compat/i386
> # mkdir /compat/i386/usr/ports
> # mount -t devfs devfs /compat/i386/dev
> # mount -t nullfs /usr/ports /compat/i386/usr/ports
>
> but instead of the latter part, after "make distribution ..."
> I made buildkernel and installkernel, and booted from the USB stick, used ports directory on hard drive.
>
> That worked, but wouldn't work for FreeBSD-current now due to unbound and /etc problems?
>
> How does one install FreeBSD, building from source, on a partition with no OS installed?
To cross install FreeBSD on a system without the required users/groups
you must either install them on the base system so that install and
mtree can use them or use the -DDB_FROM_SRC option when running the
installworld/installkernel/distribution targets.
-- Brooks
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