Manual installation, Is there a guide?

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Nezmer

Hi,

Is there a step-by-step guide for installing FreeBSD manually without sysinstall?

* Prepare slices/partitions.
* Install kernel,world,distribution in /path/to/root/partition/mountpoint
* chroot
* Set root password
* Add users.
* edit rc.conf to your liking.
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.
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* install boot manager and optionally bootloader?

What I really would like to know is how to fill the dots. what's minimally required?
Of course details on every step from start to end would be very helpful.

Is there such a guide? Or would you care to share some personal experience in this area?

Thanks in advance.
 
Actually, It's pretty simple. I already did it.

FreeBSD from scratch depends on an already installed and configured system. So, It's not really from scratch ;)

I'm working on a project that uses different package management tools. So, no sysinstall or pkgtools or portsnap. The idea is to install the system from a live CD.

I have only one piece of the puzzle missing. I have to find it before considering the guide complete:
https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=75416
 
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