3. Prerequisites
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## 3. Prerequisites

For going the FreeBSD From Scratch way, you need to have:

- A running FreeBSD system with sources and a ports tree.

- At least one unused partition where the new system will be installed.

- Experience with running mergemaster(8). Or at least no fear doing so.

- If you have no or only a slow link to the Internet: the distfiles for your favorite ports.

- Basic knowledge of shell scripting with the Bourne shell, sh(1).

- Finally, you should also be able to tell your boot loader how to boot the new system, either interactively, or by means of a config file.

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