On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:31:56 -0500 (EST) Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:19:33 +0200 > > Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:48:42 +0100 (CET) > > > "Geert Hendrickx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > The source is much larger than the installation of the running system. yup. > A minimal distribution is a running system. yes Probably my English is not good enough ... either to write or to understand how what you are saying differs. > FreeBSD is organized a little > differently from LINUX. CHeck it out a little bit and maybe you will see > the efficiency of the way it is done. Trying to do so since 2.2.x with some serious time gaps ;) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
