From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 9:56:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE87837B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A84743E42 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:56:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7LGuI2q059101; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:56:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7LGuIJM059098; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:56:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:56:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Jimmy Lantz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a bootable CD? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020821111356.02ae24d0@mail.lusidor.nu> Message-ID: <20020821095246.U58573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 In addition to all the other suggestions take a look at the livecd port. I recently munged their steps to produce a bootable CD that mounts /var, /tmp, and /home as MFS file systems and has enough tools on it to allow me to fiddle around with things. I'm using it to quickly build a bunch of identical machines. Boot off the cd, newfs the disk, and then restore (from a dump) the file systems. Works great. One thing to remember is that setuid programs sometimes lose their permissions if you don't take care to keep them intact and that mkisofs will remove them... see the -R and -r entries in the man page if you're interested in that aspect. good luck! -philip On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > Hi, > Hi, I'm interested on creating a bootable FreeBSD CD, > I've found this resource on the net, > http://bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html > Has anyone tried this? How dit it go? > > I would like to mount some dirs like /etc /tmp /var on disk and the rest on > CD, is it possible, > Last time I tried to move /etc to another disk than / I got into some > trouble, is /etc dependent to be on the same disk as / ? > > TIA, grateful for any input even RTFM's just direct me :-) > Jim. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message