Hello all,

I am interested in making my own flavor of FreeBSD. I have been pointed to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ase-build.html as my guide. Anyone know if this is an easy process or not???

Relatively easy process:

http://romana.now.ie/writing/customfreebsdiso.html
http://www.cyclecide.com/~rudy/examp...m-freebsd.html

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Both http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ase-build.html and http://romana.now.ie/writing/customfreebsdiso.html say to use the command: make release. I have tried the command make release and I get: "make: don't know how to make release. stop." I ran the command as regular user and as root both did not produce any results. The folder that I executed the command was src/release. I presume that is where I am supposed to execute the command. I tried make world and make buildworld but I get the same error of:"make: don't know how to make *. stop."

@lonesoac0

Works here:

Are You sure have the sources on Your disk?

yeah, I was definitely missing the release dir. Pretty sure that was my issue. I am currently re-installing FreeBSD WITH the required software. I know I am using a nuke to kill a mosquito but it is the only way I know to have everything I need. I do not think that I will have any more issues after the new install, but I shall see! Thank you for the help Vermaden.

Welcome mate

when I ran make release I got an error about Perl. The following is the error verbatim:
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cd: can't cd to /home/lonesoac0/chroot/usr/ports/lang/perl5.10
***Error Code 2

Stop in /usr/src/release.
*** Error Code 1

Stop in /usr/src/release
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I looked in the /usr/src/release/makefile and found the following:
#Doing 'make index' in /usr/ports requires Perl.
MAKEINDEXPORTS= lang/perl5.10
---------------------------------

Is the make release command trying to make a perl based index of installed ports?
Is this index required?

I commented the MAKEINDEXPORTS out, re-ran make release and I was eventually presented with so many errors that they went off the screen. I cannot remember if they were perl related or not.

Why like that, it should be at most /usr/ports/lang/perl5.10 not /home/lonesoac0/chroot/usr/ports/lang/perl5.10 ... You use chroot there?

make index (in /usr/ports) creates the /usr/ports/INDEX-8 file (or /usr/ports/INDEX-7 on FreeBSD 7.x etc) to allow You to search Ports by make command:
Just add perl by package:

I looked at the Perl error a second time and I thought of the solution you said...install Perl. Glad we are on the same wave length on that issue. I ran pkg_add -rF perl with the -F option because my machine was saying: "pkg_add: package 'perl-5.10.1_1' or its older version already installed." I think that the correct Perl version was installed when I first ran make release. Only way to find out is to re-run the command to be sure.

Also I chose my CHROOT environment to be in my home dir because that is where I remember Ubuntu guides placing it. And I am going to say this because I think you are thinking this....I have not been using a Ubuntu HOWTO for FreeBSD. LOL!

Fisrt I did the:
# cd /usr/ports
# make search name=xterm

Second I uncommented the MAKEINDEXPORTS line in the /usr/src/release/Makefile.

I then re-ran make release.

I still received the:
cd: can't cd to /home/lonesoac0/chroot/usr/ports/lang/perl5.10
***Error Code 2

Stop in /usr/src/release.
*** Error Code 1

Stop in /usr/src/release
--------------------------------
Any sujestions??

Maybe this will help You mate:
http://freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859...g/article.html

Well...it looks like I completed the make release command. I looked at the more detailed information posted by vermaden and I decided that I was reading too much into it. The make release command had been described to me as a relatively easy thing to do. As a result I decided to completely start from scratch in my build process. I found http://wiki.idefix.fechner.net/index...D-Build_Own_CD and decided to follow it. There were only two changes to the commands posted that I had to make. I just tested the installation ISO in VB 4.0 and it installed just fine.

Funny thing is, is that I expected only one ISO file to be made. make release made a LIVE ISO, and three other installation disks. I guess that is BSD magic for you....

The 'RELEASE' consists of these types of images:
My opinion, only use *-dvd1.iso or *-memstick.img images, as they contain livefs, which allows You to manually install FreeBSD:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12082

Yeah, I like the LIVE feature built into Linux/BSD too.