Gentoo FreeBSD

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The information in this article is representative of former times and has been archived. It can be used for reference, but is most likely not appropriate for current usage. Generally, archived articles should not be edited.

Important
Sometimes, Gentoo FreeBSD's @system is broken. Please get latest information from "Depends on" of bug #462580.

Gentoo FreeBSD was a Gentoo system based on the FreeBSD kernel. Gentoo FreeBSD is no longer maintained by any active Gentoo developers.

Gentoo FreeBSD was FreeBSD with the following changes:

Portage replaces ports.
The base system is managed by Portage.
Software in ./contrib and ./crypto is replaced with Gentoo versions.
The rc system is replaced with OpenRC.
python, wget, and bash are included in the base system to support Portage.
FreeBSD's bootloader is removed from the base system (useful for jails).

Note
Gentoo FreeBSD is not 100% binary-compatibility with regular FreeBSD due to SONAME differences. It is possible to workaround that by running regular FreeBSD in either a jail or chroot on Gentoo FreeBSD or vice versa. Gentoo FreeBSD is also not 100% script-compatible with regular FreeBSD by default. Script compatibility can be restored by installing sys-freebsd/ubin-wrappers. This makes it possible to use *BSD software like pkgsrc.

Introduction to FreeBSD

What is FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is a free (license) Unix-like operating system. Back in 1993 when development of 386BSD stopped, two projects were born: NetBSD, commonly known to run on a huge number of architectures, and FreeBSD which supports the x86, amd64, ia64, sparc64, and alpha platforms. FreeBSD is renowned for its stability, performance and security, thus being used from small to huge companies all over the world.

FreeBSD's current production release is version 11.0. Gentoo/FreeBSD is based on version 11.0 and older versions of Gentoo/FreeBSD are discontinued and no longer supported.

What is Gentoo/FreeBSD?

Gentoo FreeBSD project was a sub-project of the Prefix project, with the goal of providing a fully-capable FreeBSD operating system featuring design sensibilities taken from Gentoo Linux, such as the init system and the Portage package management system.

FreeBSD and Linux

Users migrating from Linux to FreeBSD commonly consider the two operating systems "almost the same". In fact, FreeBSD really shares a lot of similarities with Linux distributions in general. Nevertheless, it has some key differences that are worth noting:

Contrary to Linux, which actually only refers to the kernel, FreeBSD is a complete operating system, consisting of a C library, userland tools, and much more. This development approach makes the overall system very consistent.
Contrary to the Linux kernel, FreeBSD development is not led by one person, but instead managed by a small group of people called the Core Team.

Besides, FreeBSD also has some technical differences which set it apart from Linux. Some of them are very important to know, even for those who do not plan on joining the Gentoo FreeBSD development effort:

To get run-time dynamic linking functions like dlopen(), programs do not need to be linked against libdl like on GNU/Linux. Instead they are linked against libc.
FreeBSD doesn't have an official tool for kernel compilation, thus you'll have to resolve feature dependencies by hand.
FreeBSD supports UFS/UFS2 and ZFS as native file systems.
FreeBSD also supports Linux filesystems, but you cannot install your system on them. ext2/ext3 supports read/write access. ReiserFS and XFS are read-only support. For details see FreeBSD's handbook 21.3. Linux® Filesystems

Installation

Important
Part of x86-fbsd is out of date. Please install amd64-fbsd.

Caution

This guide provides minimal information about Gentoo FreeBSD. You need specialized knowledge of Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD. The Gentoo Linux Handbook and FreeBSD Handbook should be close friends.

Preparation

Gentoo/FreeBSD doesn't have the installation media. Instead, you can use vanilla FreeBSD 9.0 or later version one. Please get i386 or amd64 from ftp-archive.freebsd.org. Some ISO images are available from the ftp server, but please get -bootonly.iso image. Because you can install Gentoo/FreeBSD with the smallest media. If you want to use a memory stick, please get -memstick.img. If necessary, burn it to a CD or write it to a memory stick.

Boot your PC with the installation media. Wait for a Welcome dialog display. Please choose Shell.

Note
If you have 4KB/sector HDD (aka AFT Drive)

Please select "2. [Esc]ape to loader prompt" at boot time if you have a 4KB/sector HDD.

Set the device name of your HDD with 4KB sectors in the boot loader. ada1 and ada2... to increase if you have more than one.

set kern.cam.ada.0.quirks="1"
boot

Optional: Setting keymap

If the keyboard is not an English 101 key keyboard, set the keymap as appropriate:

root #kbdcontrol -l uk.iso

A list of the keymap is available with the following command:

root #ls -1 /usr/share/syscons/keymaps | less

Network setting

First, create a directory /tmp/bsdinstall_etc to rewrite the resolv.conf file:

root #mkdir -p /tmp/bsdinstall_etc

Identify the system's network devices. In this example the network interface is em0:

root #ifconfig

em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
        ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

Set the default gateway and IP address.

When setting a static address:

root #

ifconfig em0 192.168.0.100

root #

route add default 192.168.0.1

root #

echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf

When using DHCP:

root #dhclient em0

Optional: Installing via ssh

root #

mkdir -p /tmp/etc

root #

mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp/etc

root #

mount -t unionfs /tmp/etc /etc

root #

passwd

root #

echo "PermitRootLogin yes" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

root #

/etc/rc.d/sshd onestart

Please connect with any ssh client. The username is root.

Setting the partition

Important
sys-boot/grub2 doesn't have KEYWORDS="~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd" yet. sys-freebsd/boot0 is recommended for bootloader on Gentoo FreeBSD.

Note
If you want to use GRUB2, you need 1 MB free space at the beginning of the disk (MBR) or bios-boot partition (GPT). GRUB2 cannot find freebsd-boot partition. Please set the bios-boot (GPT).

You need to find out the device name to install. You can get it with ls /dev/*da* or dmesg | grep 'da[0-9]'. In this case, it's ada0:

Note
If you are using serial ATA & IDE drives, the device name is /dev/ada*. If you are using SCSI & USB drives, it's /dev/da*.

root #dmesg | grep 'da[0-9]'

ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <QEMU HARDDISK 0.15.> ATA-7 device
ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (WDMA2, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: 12288MB (25165824 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada0: Previously was known as ad0

Using the UFS2 file system (GPT)

Note
GPT partitions are the standard in FreeBSD 9.0. Please read the next MBR section if using a MBR partition.

If you follow this example, you will create two simple partitions. If necessary, you can split /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home. Please set these with gpart.

Partition	Filesystem	Size	Description
/dev/ada0p1	none	just a bit	Reserved for bootloader
/dev/ada0p2	UFS2 + SU	entire disk - swap space	Root partition
/dev/ada0p3	swap	Rest of the disk	Swap partition

Note
Please add options -a 4k to gpart add commands, if you have an AFT drive (4096 bytes/sector). The start of the partition is properly configured, you can get the best performance.

Using FreeBSD's default bootloader (recommended)

root #

gpart create -s GPT ada0

root #

gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0

root #

gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs -l root ada0

root #

gpart add -t freebsd-swap -l swap ada0

Please run gpart show in order to confirm results.

root #gpart show

=>      34  25165757  ada0  GPT  (12G)
        34       128     1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
       162  20971520     2  freebsd-ufs  (10G)
  20971682   4194109     3  freebsd-swap  (2G)

Results when you create a partition with option -a 4k.

root #gpart show

=>      34  25165757  ada0  GPT  (12G)
        34         6        - free -  (3.0k)
        40       128     1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
       168  20971520     2  freebsd-ufs  (10G)
  20971688   4194096     3  freebsd-swap  (2G)
  25165784         7        - free -  (3.5k)

Using grub2. [Experimental]

root #

gpart create -s GPT ada0

root #

gpart add -s 1024k -t bios-boot ada0

root #

gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs -l root ada0

root #

gpart add -t freebsd-swap -l swap ada0

Using the UFS2 file system (MBR)

Partition	Filesystem	Size	Description
/dev/ada0s1a	UFS2 + SU	entire disk - swap space	Root partition
/dev/ada0s1b	swap	Rest of the disk	Swap partition

Using FreeBSD's default bootloader (recommended)

root #

gpart create -s mbr ada0

root #

gpart add -t freebsd ada0

root #

gpart set -a active -i 1 ada0

root #

gpart create -s bsd ada0s1

root #

gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs ada0s1

root #

gpart add -t freebsd-swap ada0s1

Using GRUB2 (experimental)

root #

gpart create -s mbr ada0

root #

gpart add -b 1024k -t freebsd ada0

root #

gpart set -a active -i 1 ada0

root #

gpart create -s bsd ada0s1

root #

gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs ada0s1

root #

gpart add -t freebsd-swap ada0s1

Using the ZFS file system (experimental) / (GPT)

Using FreeBSD's default bootloader (recommended)

root #

gpart create -s GPT ada0

root #

gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0

root #

gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l zfs-system ada0

Using GRUB2 (experimental)

root #

gpart create -s GPT ada0

root #

gpart add -s 1024k -t bios-boot ada0

root #

gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l zfs-system ada0

Creating and mounting a file system

Using the UFS2 file system

Please don't forget newfs -L option to label.

Note
Add option -j to newfs to enable soft updates journaling. Add option -t to enable TRIM.

Your choice GPT:

root #newfs -L gfbsdroot -U /dev/ada0p2

Your choice MBR:

root #newfs -L gfbsdroot -U /dev/ada0s1a

And mount it:

root #

mount /dev/ufs/gfbsdroot /mnt

root #

swapon /dev/gpt/swap (GPT)

root #

swapon /dev/ada0s1b (MBR)

Using the ZFS file system (experimental)

Load the kernel module in order to enable ZFS:

root #kldload zfs

Prepare the RAM disk to write /boot/zfs/zpool.cache:

root #mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /boot/zfs

Please use gnop if you have 4KB/sector HDD. You can get the best performance:

root #gnop create -S 4096 /dev/gpt/zfs-system

Creates a new storage pool. When using gnop, please specify /dev/gpt/zfs-system.nop instead of /dev/gpt/zfs-system.

root #

zpool create zsys /dev/gpt/zfs-system

root #zfs set mountpoint=none zsys

Creates a new ZFS file system:

root #

zfs create zsys/root

root #

zfs set mountpoint=/mnt zsys/root

root #

zfs mount -a

root #

zfs create zsys/root/usr

root #zfs create zsys/root/var

root #

zfs create zsys/root/tmp

root #

zfs create zsys/home

root #

zfs create -V 8gb zsys/swap

root #

zfs set org.freebsd:swap=on zsys/swap

root #

zfs set checksum=off zsys/swap

root #

mkdir /mnt/home

root #

mount -t zfs zsys/home /mnt/home

Downloading the stage 3 file and Portage snapshot

Now, Gentoo/FreeBSD 9.0 stage 3 is available for x86-fbsd. And Gentoo FreeBSD 9.1 stage 3 is available for amd64-fbsd.

Important
If you want to use amd64-fbsd, please upgrade to 10.3 after the installation is complete. FreeBSD 9.1 is EOL on December 31, 2014. If you want to use x86-fbsd, please upgrade to 10.3 after the installation is complete. FreeBSD 9.0 is EOL on March 31, 2013.

root #

cd /mnt

root #

fetch http://dev.gentoo.org/~aballier/fbsd9.0/x86/stage3-i686-freebsd-9.0.tar.bz2 (for x86-fbsd users)

root #

fetch http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/bsd/freebsd/stages/amd64-fbsd-9.1/stage3-amd64-freebsd-9.1.tar.bz2 (for amd64-fbsd users)

root #

fetch http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2

Unpacking stage3 and Portage snapshot

Important
The following error may be displayed. Don't worry, please continue the installation. This problem will be fixed in 9.2. Details, see bug #469454

./bin/fuser: Can't create 'bin/fuser'
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

root #

cd /mnt

root #

setenv LANG "en_US.UTF-8"

root #

tar xjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 -C /mnt

root #

tar xjf portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/usr

Entering the new environment

root #

mount -t devfs devfs /mnt/dev

root #

cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/

root #chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Settings and install more in chroot environment

The first settings and time zone settings

env-update and time zone settings. Of course, you can modify /etc/portage/make.conf.

(chroot) root #

env-update && source /etc/profile

(chroot) root #

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime (please select your time zone)

(chroot) root #

emerge -u sys-apps/portage ; emerge sys-devel/libtool app-admin/eselect

(chroot) root #

emerge app-editors/nano

(chroot) root #

mv /etc/make.conf /etc/portage/ (if /etc/make.conf is exist.)

(chroot) root #

nano -w /etc/portage/make.conf (if necessary)

Bug fixes (for x86-fbsd users, 9.0 stage 3 only)

Bugs have been fixed in several packages. Please upgrade them. For details, see bug #324445, bug #412319, bug #417031, and bug #421191.

(chroot) root #

emerge sys-devel/gcc-config

(chroot) root #

emerge sys-freebsd/freebsd-mk-defs sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib app-arch/libarchive dev-libs/libedit

Special settings for ZFS

If you select ZFS file system, the following additional work is required.

(chroot) root #

emerge flaggie

(chroot) root #

flaggie +zfs

(chroot) root #

emerge sys-devel/flex

(chroot) root #

emerge sys-freebsd/freebsd-cddl

(chroot) root #

emerge sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib sys-freebsd/freebsd-ubin sys-freebsd/boot0

Installing a kernel source

Unlike Gentoo/Linux, freebsd-sources package is the only sources.

(chroot) root #

USE=symlink emerge freebsd-sources

Compiling and installing kernel

Now let's compile the kernel. For more information see the FreeBSD Handbook.

(chroot) root #

emerge -u sys-devel/flex

(chroot) root #

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (case of x86-fbsd)

(chroot) root #

cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf (case of amd64-fbsd)

(chroot) root #

cp GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints

(chroot) root #

config GENERIC

(chroot) root #

cd ../compile/GENERIC

(chroot) root #

make cleandepend && make depend && make -j3 && make install

System settings

Familiar settings. Please refer to Gentoo Handbook for more information.

When selecting UFS2:

(chroot) root #nano -w /etc/fstab

# Device	Mountpoint	FStype	Options	Dump	Pass#
/dev/ufs/gfbsdroot	/		ufs	rw	1	1

#your choice GPT (don't forget comment out)
#/dev/gpt/swap	none		swap	sw	0	0

#your choice MBR (don't forget comment out)
#/dev/ada0s1b	none		swap	sw	0	0

If you select ZFS. Note that the Pass# column should be zero for ZFS, because it cannot be checked by fsck.

(chroot) root #nano -w /etc/fstab

# Device	Mountpoint	FStype	Options	Dump	Pass#
#/dev/ad0s1a	/		ufs	rw	1	1
#/dev/ad0s1b	none		swap	sw	0	0
zsys/root	/		zfs	rw	0	0

Setting the host name

(chroot) root #nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname

# (Set the hostname variable to your host name.  On BSD this is expected to be the FQDN.)
hostname="daemon.homenetwork"

Editing network settings

(chroot) root #nano -w /etc/conf.d/net

# (Set the dns_domain variable to your domain name)
dns_domain_lo="homenetwork"

# Manually setting)
config_em0="192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0"
routes_em0="default via 192.168.0.1"

# Using DHCP)
config_em0="dhcp"

Adding net.em0 to the default runlevel

(chroot) root #

cd /etc/init.d

(chroot) root #

ln -s net.lo0 net.em0

(chroot) root #

rc-update add net.em0 default

Setting keymap

Please edit /etc/conf.d/syscons if you want to change the keymap.

(chroot) root #

nano -w /etc/conf.d/syscons

A list of the keymap is available with the following command.

(chroot) root #

ls -1 /usr/share/syscons/keymaps | less

Setting the root password

(chroot) root #

passwd

Adding a user for daily use (sample)

(chroot) root #

adduser

Username: yournickname
Full name:
Uid (Leave empty for default):
Login group [yournickname]:
Login group is yournickname. Invite yournickname into other groups? []: wheel
Login class [default]:
Shell (bash csh esh fish ksh sash sh tcsh zsh nologin) [sh]: bash
Home directory [/home/yournickname]:
Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default):
Use password-based authentication? [yes]:
Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]:
Use a random password? (yes/no) [no]:
Enter password:
Enter password again:
Lock out the account after creation? [no]:
Username   : yournickname
Password   : *****
Full Name  :
Uid        : 1001
Class      :
Groups     : yournickname wheel
Home       : /home/yournickname
Home Mode  :
Shell      : /bin/bash
Locked     : no
OK? (yes/no): yes
adduser: INFO: Successfully added (yournickname) to the user database.
Add another user? (yes/no): no
Goodbye!

You can run at startup sshd:

(chroot) root #

emerge -u net-misc/openssh

(chroot) root #

rc-update add sshd default

Special settings for ZFS

When using the ZFS file system, the following additional work is required:

(chroot) root #

rc-update add zfs boot

(chroot) root #

rc-update add zvol default

(chroot) root #

echo 'zfs_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf

(chroot) root #

echo 'vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zsys/root"' >> /boot/loader.conf

Special settings for virtual machine

When installing on a virtual machine, the following additional configuration is required:

(chroot) root #

echo 'kern.hz=100' >> /boot/loader.conf

Installing the required packages

To use DHCP, net-misc/dhcpcd is required:

(chroot) root #

emerge net-misc/dhcpcd

Installing the boot loader

Install a boot loader to boot the Gentoo FreeBSD:

(chroot) root #

emerge sys-freebsd/boot0

Please see this section if you want to use GRUB2. But it is experimental!

Setting boot loader

Let's prepare for using sys-freebsd/boot0.

If you select UFS2 (GPT):

(chroot) root #

gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0

(chroot) root #

gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0

If you select UFS2 (MBR):

(chroot) root #

gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0

(chroot) root #

gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ada0s1

If you select ZFS (GPT):

(chroot) root #

gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0

(chroot) root #

gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0

Exiting the chroot

Exit from the chroot environment:

(chroot) root #

exit

Cleaning up and setting the remaining

Do you want to reboot now? Just a minute. ZFS users must make few more setting changes.

Special settings for ZFS

If you select ZFS file system, the following additional work is required.

root #

umount /mnt/dev

root #

cd /

root #

zpool set bootfs=zsys/root zsys

root #

zpool export zsys

root #gnop destroy /dev/gpt/zfs-system.nop (please run if you are using gnop)

root #

zpool import zsys

root #

mkdir /mnt/boot/zfs

root #

cp /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/

root #zfs unmount -a

root #

zfs set mountpoint=none zsys

root #

zfs set mountpoint=/usr zsys/root/usr

root #

zfs set mountpoint=/var zsys/root/var

root #

zfs set mountpoint=/tmp zsys/root/tmp

root #

zfs set mountpoint=/home zsys/home

root #zfs set mountpoint=legacy zsys/root

Reboot!

No problems? You can now reboot. Don't forget to remove the installation media.

root #shutdown -r now

Running Gentoo FBSD in vanilla FreeBSD's jail

Details of jail, please see the FreeBSD Handbook.

Preparing directory

root #

mkdir -p /usr/jail/gfbsd

root #cd /usr/jail/gfbsd

Downloading and unpacking the stage 3 file and Portage snapshot

root #

fetch http://dev.gentoo.org/~aballier/fbsd9.0/x86/stage3-i686-freebsd-9.0.tar.bz2 (for x86-fbsd users)

root #

fetch http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/bsd/freebsd/stages/amd64-fbsd-9.1/stage3-amd64-freebsd-9.1.tar.bz2 (for amd64-fbsd users)

root #

fetch http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2

root #

tar xjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2

root #

tar xjf portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /usr/jail/gfbsd/usr

Setting

Configure the jail to start with FreeBSD:

FILE /etc/rc.confExample for starting the jail at boot time

jail_enable="YES"
jail_list="gfbsd"

jail_gfbsd_rootdir="/usr/jail/gfbsd"
jail_gfbsd_hostname="gfbsd.example.org"
jail_gfbsd_devfs_enable="YES"

# You will need to add the following line if you want network access.
# Please specify your network devices instead of em0.
jail_gfbsd_interface="em0"
jail_gfbsd_ip="192.168.0.10"

Setting to operate Gentoo/FreeBSD in the jail:

root #

echo 'rc_sys="jail"' >> /usr/jail/gfbsd/etc/rc.conf

root #

echo 'hostname="gfbsd"' > /usr/jail/gfbsd/etc/conf.d/hostname

root #echo 'syslogd_args="-ss"' >> /usr/jail/gfbsd/etc/conf.d/syslogd

root #chroot /usr/jail/gfbsd /bin/bash

(chroot) root #

rc-update add vixie-cron default

(chroot) root #

exit

Run jail

Run jail:

root #/etc/rc.d/jail start

You can check that it worked:

root #jls

   JID  IP Address      Hostname                      Path
     1  192.168.0.10    gfbsd                         /usr/jail/gfbsd

Enter the jail environment with the jexec command:

root #jexec 1 /bin/bash

Developing for Gentoo/FreeBSD

How to help

There are many things you could help with, depending on one's skill level and spare time:

Working on current ebuilds: this means working closely with ebuild maintainers in order to create patches or modify ebuilds in a way that can be accepted into the Gentoo ebuild repository.
Security: if you are into security, we need you! Although security advisories from the FreeBSD project are tracked and fixed, we can always use help in this area.
Contacts: we need people who can get in touch with FreeBSD developers to maintain contacts between us and the original project to exchange patches and discuss various problems and their solutions. Note that this should never involve any kind of spamming of mailing lists or IRC channels.
Testing: the more people are actively using Gentoo FreeBSD, the more bugs will be discovered, which helps us improving the quality of the port. If you are good at describing bugs or problems, we definitely want to hear from you.
Other areas where we need help include: system ebuilds, creation of installation CDs, documentation, kernel hacking.

Troubleshooting

Architecture independent issues

Emerge fails app-misc/screen

For details see bug #393039 and bug #409819.

Please use app-misc/tmux instead of app-misc/screen.

lex: not found

root #emerge --ask sys-devel/flex

cc: not found

For details see bug #412319:

root #emerge '>=sys-devel/gcc-config-1.7.1'

Contacts

gentoo-bsd mailing list (Gentoo Mailing Lists)
IRC channel #gentoo-bsd (webchat) on ~~Freenode~~ Libera Chat (Gentoo Linux IRC channels list)

External resources

This page is based on a document formerly found on our main website gentoo.org.
The following people contributed to the original document: Ignacio Arque-Latour, Michael Kohl, Otavio R. Piske, Aaron Walker, Chris White, , , Camille Huot, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
They are listed here because wiki history does not allow for any external attribution. If you edit the wiki article, please do not add yourself here; your contributions are recorded on each article's associated history page.

Gentoo FreeBSD

Introduction to FreeBSD

What is FreeBSD?

What is Gentoo/FreeBSD?

FreeBSD and Linux

Installation

Caution

Preparation

Optional: Setting keymap

Network setting

Optional: Installing via ssh

Setting the partition

Using the UFS2 file system (GPT)

Using FreeBSD's default bootloader (recommended)

Using grub2. [Experimental]

Using the UFS2 file system (MBR)

Using FreeBSD's default bootloader (recommended)

Using GRUB2 (experimental)

Using the ZFS file system (experimental) / (GPT)

Using FreeBSD's default bootloader (recommended)

Using GRUB2 (experimental)

Creating and mounting a file system

Using the UFS2 file system

Using the ZFS file system (experimental)

Downloading the stage 3 file and Portage snapshot

Unpacking stage3 and Portage snapshot

Entering the new environment

Settings and install more in chroot environment

The first settings and time zone settings

Bug fixes (for x86-fbsd users, 9.0 stage 3 only)

Special settings for ZFS

Installing a kernel source

Compiling and installing kernel

System settings

Special settings for ZFS

Special settings for virtual machine

Installing the required packages

Installing the boot loader

Setting boot loader

Exiting the chroot

Cleaning up and setting the remaining

Special settings for ZFS

Reboot!

Running Gentoo FBSD in vanilla FreeBSD's jail

Preparing directory

Downloading and unpacking the stage 3 file and Portage snapshot

Setting

Run jail

Developing for Gentoo/FreeBSD

How to help

Troubleshooting

Architecture independent issues

Emerge fails app-misc/screen

lex: not found

cc: not found

Contacts

See also

External resources