Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:51:56 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any simple tool to extract files from an UFS image ? Message-ID: <484D6DBC.4040309@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20080609141441.GA5025@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20080609141441.GA5025@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > I am doing some work recently on small FreeBSD images (picobsd and friends), > and I need to run on a linux machine some script to customize > both the UFS and the ISO image. dump and restore? > > Because the customization is just writing some text into a file, > my approach is to put in the UFS image a file with a recognizable > start and end markers, and then dd into the image the stuff I need. > > I was wondering if i could avoid shipping both images, and instead > use some trick to extract the tree from the UFS image and then > use mkisofs on the linux side to build the ISO. > > I know that bsdtar can read ISO images, but I don't think it does > the same on UFS. Yet, if the boot2 code is able to squeeze the > required pieces on 8k or so, maybe there is some simple (and portable) > tool that can do the file extraction job ? > > cheers > luigi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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