Part VI. Building the system

Table of Contents

32. Obtaining the sources

32.1. Preparing directories

32.2. Terminology

32.3. Downloading tarballs

32.3.1. Downloading sources for a NetBSD release

32.3.2. Downloading sources for a NetBSD stable branch

32.3.3. Downloading sources for a NetBSD-current development branch

32.4. Fetching by CVS

32.4.1. Fetching a NetBSD release

32.4.2. Fetching a NetBSD stable branch

32.4.3. Fetching the NetBSD-current development branch

32.4.4. Saving some cvs(1) options

33. Crosscompiling NetBSD with build.sh

33.1. Building the toolchain

33.2. Configuring the kernel manually

33.3. Building the kernel manually

33.4. Building the kernel with build.sh

33.5. Building the userland

33.6. Building the X Window System

33.7. Changing build behaviour

33.7.1. Changing the Destination Directory

33.7.2. Static Builds

33.7.3. Using build.sh options

33.7.4. make(1) variables used during build

34. Compiling the kernel

34.1. Requirements and procedure

34.2. Installing the kernel sources

34.3. Creating the kernel configuration file

34.4. Building the kernel manually

34.4.1. Configuring the kernel manually

34.4.2. Generating dependencies and recompiling manually

34.5. Building the kernel using build.sh

34.6. Installing the new kernel

34.7. If something went wrong

35. Updating an existing system from sources

35.1. Manual build and update procedure

35.1.1. Building a new userland

35.1.2. Building a new kernel

35.1.3. Installing the kernel and userland

35.1.4. Updating the system configuration files

35.1.5. Summary

35.2. Using sysinst

35.3. Using sysbuild and sysupgrade

35.3.1. Tweak: Building as non-root

35.3.2. Tweak: Setting up nightly builds

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

35.4.1. Using etcupdate with source files

35.4.2. Using etcupdate with binary distribution sets

35.4.3. Using etcmanage instead of etcupdate

36. Building NetBSD installation media

36.1. Creating standard installation images with build.sh

36.2. Creating custom live disk images