From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 2 21:16:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bsdhome.com (rdu25-2-113.nc.rr.com [24.25.2.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3D737B405 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from neutrino.bsdhome.com (jupiter [192.168.220.13]) by smtp.bsdhome.com (8.11.3nb1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g135Gob00684; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 00:16:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by neutrino.bsdhome.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g135GhK21850; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 00:16:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsd) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 00:16:43 -0500 From: Brian Dean To: Petko Popadiyski Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "live versions of freebsd" Message-ID: <20020203001643.A21504@neutrino.bsdhome.com> References: <20020130184101.GA9791@fbi.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020130184101.GA9791@fbi.gov>; from petko@freebsd-bg.org on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:41:01PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:41:01PM +0200, Petko Popadiyski wrote: > > hi all, > I want to ask if anyone knows about the set of tools which make > freebsd ready to run on CDs. I've been using the following for almost a year: http://people.freebsd.org/~bsd/cdroot/ While not highly polished, it's pretty straight-forward to set up and use. The above provides a script to create a freebsd directory structure that can be burned onto a CD and used as the root filesystem. When booting from the resultant CD, you can also provide a /etc/* on a floppy disk and anything on the floppy will override that on the CD which makes the system very flexible. I've used this setup primarily for custom install CDs that contain a FreeBSD distribution in /dist on the CD (/etc/inst on the CD is a rudimentary installer), and also as a CD-ROM based firewall (which uses a floppy disk with /etc overrides to provide firewall rules, etc). -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message