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 ...



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