Best way to build a "new" AMD64 current
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Jun 14 15:20:03 UTC 2007
Walter Vaughan wrote:
> What is the best policy to build a new current? I'll erase and start anew.
You mean a "virgin" install from scratch, as if the disk
was new and empty? In that case I would download a recent
7-current snapshot ISO, install it and update from there
with cvsup or csup.
The June snapshots have been created and posted to the FTP
servers just a few days ago. They're on ftp.freebsd.org
and probably on some of the mirrors (but not on all of
them). The directory is /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200706.
> 1)Using a FreeBSD AMD64 6.2 boot only CD, and doing a minumal install.
Yes, you can do that if you have a 6.2 CD at hand.
However, I would prefer to start with a fresh 7-current
snapshot instead, as explained above.
> 2)Then installing pkg_add -r cvsup and getting the /usr/src w/ current
You can also use csup instead of cvsup. csup is in the
base system, so it doesn't require installing a port.
Best regards
Oliver
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