How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:19:33 +0200
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at apropo.ro> wrote:

> 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 ...

I mean why not install first a minimal distribution set with the sources
and do the hole thing from hdd.



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