From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 23:45:13 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 9147037B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.one2netmail.co.ug (mail.one2netmail.co.ug [216.250.215.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C366D43E77 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:45:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pokui@one2net.co.ug) Received: from favour.one2net.co.ug (g-class.sanyutel.com [216.250.215.27]) by mail.one2netmail.co.ug (Postfix) with ESMTP id C89A868C4E; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:52:20 +0300 (EAT) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a bootable CD? From: Patrick J Okui To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: Jimmy Lantz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020821095246.U58573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> References: <20020821095246.U58573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 22 Aug 2002 09:43:38 +0300 Message-Id: <1029998619.29884.16.camel@favour> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 a related question.... I think I read somewhere that sysistall can be scripted - anyone know where I can find any documentation on this? On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:56, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > 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 -- Patrick J Okui Systems Administrator One2Net (U) Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message