Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:29:53 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel Message-ID: <3F.9A.16944.166A3525@cdptpa-oedge02>
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>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?
Directories on this partition include /netbsd-HEAD, /pkgsrc, and /usr/src, /usr/ports and /usr/doc.
I use a USB-stick installation of FreeBSD 9.2 prerelease for building FreeBSD-current, but due to a bug in re driver, could not connect to Internet with Realtek 8111E Ethernet on MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard.
NetBSD-current (6.99.19 updated to 6.99.23) was able to access this Ethernet, so I checked out, by cvs, NetBSD-current source and pkgsrc tree (current, not quarterly), updated NetBSD and packages, and successfully built subversion.
Then I used this svn to checkout FreeBSD-current source tree.
I believe FreeBSD installation would not touch directories /netbsd-HEAD and /pkgsrc.
Tom
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