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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:44:02 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        Patrick J Okui <pokui@one2net.co.ug>
Cc:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>, Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a bootable CD?
Message-ID:  <20020822094402.GB62799@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <1029998619.29884.16.camel@favour>
References:  <20020821095246.U58573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> <1029998619.29884.16.camel@favour>

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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.
> > >
> > >
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> Patrick J Okui
> Systems Administrator
> One2Net (U) Ltd
> 
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