Re: A quick question

Thanks for the follow-up.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 17:08 Dave Cottlehuber <dch_at_skunkwerks.at> wrote:

> 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
>