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FreeBSD From Scratch

Posted by timothy on from the and-scratch-don't-mean-nothin' dept.

geekmedia writes "Daemon News has an excellent article which describes a fully automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system compiled from source, including compilation of all your favorite ports and configured to match your idea of the perfect system. If you think make world is a wonderful concept, FreeBSD From Scratch extends it to make universe."

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  1. Some things from experience by Sevn · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found the article of little use at all for a few
    reasons:

    I think I've had an installworld fail ONCE in 7
    years, and I think it was because I hadn't noticed
    that the make buildworld failed.

    As far as cruft in the OS laying around, I had a
    system that went from 2.2.8 to 4.0 stable with no
    problems. Part of the love of freebsd is not having to wipe partitions.

    To sum things up, most of the people I know that
    have had weird problems with things laying around
    don't do two very important things:

    #1 Run mergemaster

    #2 Read /usr/src/UPDATING

    As far as I'm concerned, the article this story
    references is completely pointless. :)

    --
    For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.