On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:46:50PM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
  | Root's crontab and /root files are in "etc.tgz", so just don't install
  | that; use "etcupdate" instead. The really annoying thing about that
  | method is that you have to build "sysinstall" and all the alternate
  | kernels, when you really only want the sets. It would be nice if "make
  | release"  were factored so that you could easily make just the sets,
  | or just sysinstall (plus INSTALL kernels), or just the other kernels.

After a "make build" (or equivalent), do:

		# populate $DESTDIR with various config files
	cd /usr/src/etc
	$TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-${MACHINE} distribution

		# make the sets
	cd /usr/src/distrib/sets
	$TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-${MACHINE} maketars

It is not necessary to build the kernels (which is performed by the
"snap_kern" target in etc/Makefile) to build the release .tar.gz sets...

Luke.