Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:26:24 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?] Message-ID: <201002011326.32384.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d1001311801i5d19ed65wb062d5b5f8130740@mail.gmail.com> References: <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <201002011142.46490.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <7d6fde3d1001311801i5d19ed65wb062d5b5f8130740@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1331191.mNPq3rDmfx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: > =A0 =A0 Could you please describe the process to me in more detail (i.e > what tools are used, high-level process req'd, etc)? I am going to be > doing something similar for work [at Ironport] and if I can do it in > a better manner and it would be accepted into the tree, that would be > the option I'd take for resolving this bootable media, for my work as > well as for the community as a whole. I do a make release then run this script on the resulting DVD=20 directory.. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/makeusb.sh ie.. /tmp/makeusb.sh /tmp/${RELNAME}-release/R/cdrom/dvd1 /dev/da1 Then mount it onto /mnt and do cp -r /tmp/${RELNAME}-release/R/cdrom/dvd1/${BUILDNAME} /mnt It creates an MFS using makefs which syslinux can load and then the=20 loader runs, loads the kernel and the MFS (nested MFS - bleh) and then=20 boots as usual for an install. Once the kernel starts the USB stick is accessable as daX as a FAT=20 partition. I have tried getting syslinux to just run the loader from an MFS (which=20 works) but I can't get the loader to read the USB stick for some reason=20 even though AFAICS it should grok FAT32 disks. I didn't really know how=20 to debug it any further though so I went with the less elegant MFS in=20 MFS route. Also I imagine gpart could be used (in HEAD anyway) instead of the fdisk=20 voodoo I have. Note that while it references logo.lss it doesn't actually copy it over=20 (it's my company's logo, but anything would suffice and it's optional -=20 syslinux ignores the directive if the file doesn't exist) I hope you find it useful and it gets in the tree :) Thanks. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1331191.mNPq3rDmfx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLZkLg5ZPcIHs/zowRArzbAJ97sRH+1fpynMMaR+6aHyMkYaR+jACdFkH+ NIC/mGcsSPi/HIwKAgsCHek= =NFc0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1331191.mNPq3rDmfx--
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