Re: A quick question

On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, at 06:39, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> Can I bump this issue one more time?
> 
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016, 18:38 Dave Cottlehuber <dch_at_skunkwerks.at> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2016, at 10:07, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am on a Macbook pro 11,3 and I wanted to start trying to help sort out
> > > some problems that might be too small for the overall team but might help
> > > others in the future.
> >
> > \o/ there are a few of us about, I'm using a MacBookPro 11,2.
> >
> > > Anyways I am on 12-CURRENT but when I installed from the USB stick I
> > > didn't
> > > check the docs and 32 bit binaries.
> > >
> > > svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head /usr/src
> > > svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
> > > svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/doc/head /usr/doc
> > >
> > > once I do the above steps, do I have to rebuild the entire world?
> > > Currently
> > > all I am missing is the 32 bit binaries, could I just rebuild those
> > > instead
> > > of building the entire system?
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Owen
> >
> > Hi Owen
> >
> > You probably only need to unpack
> > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/12.0-CURRENT/*.txz ;
> > I'm assuming this snapshot is still from the same date as your
> > installer. If your USB stick has the txz on it, then you can extract
> > them from there as well. Something like
> >
> > tar -xf docs.txz -C /
> >
> > is probably all you need. NB not tested, viz xkcd.com/1168
> >
> > A+
> > Dave
> another question to make sure.
> 
> looking at the url: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/12.0-CURRENT/
> 
> I see the MANIFEST along with
> 
> base-dbg.txz
> base..
> doc..
> kernel-dbg...
> etc.
> 
> so when I install FreeBSD based on the installation items that I select, it just unpacks
> one of the above listed file right into the / directory on the hdd?

Sorry Christmas got in the way of emails.

Yes, you can see here in pc-sysinstall:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/11.0.0/usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend/functions-extractimage.sh?view=markup#l57

the excellent 3rd party mfsbsd tool does the same thing to install
FreeBSD:

https://github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd/blob/master/tools/zfsinstall#L354-L356

A+
Dave