Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:11:16 +0800 From: Greg Laslett <g_laslett@motherwell.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bootable single user embedded cd - cdboot ? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104164314.00a7d580@exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au>
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Hi, I'm in the process of building a bootable cd based system for cold backup use. I want a cd to boot up single user and launch a backup script. Use of floppy disks is not an option. We are currently using FreeBSD 4.3. I probably want to boot from a small (2.88M ?) container file system and then mount the CD to get the rest. Alternately if mkisofs / burncd supports it, I would boot from a large container file system with everything present. Trawling through the documentation, I have come across reference to 'cdboot'. Where does this fit into the scheme of things ? Is it a special kernel ? Is it a filesystem container like boot.flp, fixit.flp etc. Has anyone out there generated a 'fixit_cd.iso' container file that I could adapt for my bootable cd application ? Regards, Greg Laslett. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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