From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 18:24:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830B91065674; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:24:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13DD8FC16; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so1699495bkb.13 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:23:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ILvGmg5ggzbETUg9Thw1DcqXr5cBWazLCLz64PbZpNM=; b=bxIy+/AnTxbIRHc5CGHgpK3vxfNgUczVfF3SERidfErRENroWm4wcwqZvBf5W70ZgH kE00BfLSsudVbEa5AElimeB8vBRHUKcJq2UKhsFf69XQtatkgnS2fwXMsONTAD+39ZNF tq3yMe8Hnd0QeSvcJwfOgLv4kN/oYsAfVzMVc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.114.2 with SMTP id jc2mr9413487obb.27.1320690239506; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:23:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.122.33 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:23:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1320686400.16024.17.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> References: <1320686400.16024.17.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:23:59 -0800 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Sean Bruno Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 NFS Installs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:24:01 -0000 On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Sean Bruno wrote: > I noted that we no longer have the disc1.iso in this release. =A0What > should I use to populate a NFS rootfs for netinstalls? > > This was what I had been using(8.2-RELEASE) to populate NFS roots for > netinstalls. =A0This allowed you to boot up into something that was > self-contained. > > The other ISO's seem to have A LOT more stuff with symlinks pointing to > absolute paths all over the f/s. This isn't quite as simple to copy over > to a rootfs to use as a NFS target for booting. It's just a better idea to use the payload tarballs from here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases//// e.g. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ as the basis for your system, and probably just run something like make distribution ala mergemaster afterwards and/or use a custom /boot/loader.conf, /etc/... . sysinstall hacked up the system using its custom memory disk with secret sauce binaries and pathing, s.t. it kept most things self-contained to /stand, whereas bsdinstall hacks the system up in different ways -- most of it pointing back to /tmp/bsdinstall_* or similar locations. HTH, -Garrett