Part V. Building the system

Table of Contents

29. Obtaining the sources

29.1. Preparing directories

29.2. Terminology

29.3. Downloading tarballs

29.3.1. Downloading sources for a NetBSD release

29.3.2. Downloading sources for a NetBSD stable branch

29.3.3. Downloading sources for a NetBSD-current development branch

29.4. Fetching by CVS

29.4.1. Fetching a NetBSD release

29.4.2. Fetching a NetBSD stable branch

29.4.3. Fetching the NetBSD-current development branch

29.4.4. Saving some cvs(1) options

29.5. Sources on CD (ISO)

30. Crosscompiling NetBSD with build.sh

30.1. Building the crosscompiler

30.2. Configuring the kernel manually

30.3. Crosscompiling the kernel manually

30.4. Crosscompiling the kernel with build.sh

30.5. Crosscompiling the userland

30.6. Crosscompiling the X Window System

30.7. Changing build behaviour

30.7.1. Changing the Destination Directory

30.7.2. Static Builds

30.7.3. Using build.sh options

30.7.4. make(1) variables used during build

31. Compiling the kernel

31.1. Requirements and procedure

31.2. Installing the kernel sources

31.3. Creating the kernel configuration file

31.4. Building the kernel manually

31.4.1. Configuring the kernel manually

31.4.2. Generating dependencies and recompiling manually

31.5. Building the kernel using build.sh

31.6. Installing the new kernel

31.7. If something went wrong

32. Updating an existing system from sources

32.1. The updating procedure

32.1.1. Building a new userland

32.1.2. Building a new kernel

32.1.3. Installing the kernel and userland

32.1.4. Updating the system configuration files

32.1.5. Summary

32.1.6. Alternative: using sysinst

32.2. More details about the updating of configuration and startup files

32.2.1. Using etcupdate with source files

32.2.2. Using etcupdate with binary distribution sets

32.2.3. Using etcmanage instead of etcupdate

33. Building NetBSD installation media

33.1. Creating custom install or boot floppies for your architecture e.g. i386

33.2. Creating a custom install or boot CD with build.sh