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Subject: Re: Making a bootable disk2 from a make release?
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Garrett Rooney wrote:

> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:26:23 -0400
> From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, chad@DCFinc.com,
>      freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, clarso@eldocomp.com
> Subject: Re: Making a bootable disk2 from a make release?
>
> i would be interested in having such a thing in either ports or the
> base system.  i've wanted such a thing several times, as have several
> other people i know.  almost all of the people i've heard ask about
> such things get frustrated half way through making it work, so having
> something like this in the base to work from would probably be helpful
> to many people.

I know when I started doing it, it was frustrating.  The utility I wrote
does everything with just a few parameters.  I could always port it into
something that could be used in the ports tree, it wouldn't take much work
to do, plus im on leave for two weeks weeks so I have the time :)


Jarrod Sayers
Information Technologist
School of Communication, Information and New Media
University of South Australia, Magill Campus.
Phone: +61 8 83024045
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