How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at apropo.ro
Tue Jan 27 05:23:34 PST 2004
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET)
"Geert Hendrickx" <geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be> wrote:
> 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 believe you can boot from the second (Live) CD, fdisk, label, newfs,
mount partitions, extract the sources, cvsup and start building. I
didn't try it, but it should work. I don't see why would you do that,
but ...
--
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list