From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 1: 6:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailme.motherwell.com.au (mailme.motherwell.com.au [203.17.161.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8EB837B41B for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 01:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19838 invoked by uid 505); 4 Jan 2002 09:06:20 -0000 Received: from g_laslett@motherwell.com.au by mailme.motherwell.com.au with qmail-scanner-0.96 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4178. . Clean. Processed in 1.418333 secs); 04 Jan 2002 09:06:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au) (192.168.70.13) by mailme.motherwell.com.au with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 09:06:18 -0000 Received: from cbhlaptop.motherwell.com.au (CBHLAPTOP [192.168.70.122]) by exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id SHDRXRFC; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:06:17 +0800 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104164314.00a7d580@exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au> X-Sender: GregL@exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:11:16 +0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Greg Laslett Subject: Bootable single user embedded cd - cdboot ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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