From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 2:43:41 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 C601837B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 02:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC41343E42 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 02:43:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7M9i6IK063337; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:44:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7M9i22h063336; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:44:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:44:02 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Patrick J Okui Cc: Philip Hallstrom , Jimmy Lantz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a bootable CD? Message-ID: <20020822094402.GB62799@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20020821095246.U58573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> <1029998619.29884.16.camel@favour> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1029998619.29884.16.camel@favour> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 09:43:38AM +0300, Patrick J Okui typed: > In a related question.... I think I read somewhere that sysistall can be > scripted - anyone know where I can find any documentation on this? /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message