Re: Building an /etc from scratch...

On Saturday 31 March 2007 08:45, John Clark wrote:
G'Day John,

> How does one create an /etc from src/etc. There does not seem to be a
> make target in
> the main Makefile at the top of the hierarchy.
> A couple of points here... I don't have a 'working' FreeBSD system at
> the moment, and
> because of failures to boot off of a USB CDROM device, I don't have the
> usual 'installer'
> running. I was able to use the pxeboot via BOOTP to get a diskless
> system up and running
> and was able to compile the world, and GENERIC kernel via this mode.
> However, building the /etc directory seems to not have much support in
> terms of Makefile
> references.

once you have installed world+kernel, you can:

make distribute DESTDIR=/path/to/your/broken/system/root

from /usr/src 

(gleaned from the how to setup a jail directory tree in jail(8)

regards,
Lucas

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