From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 6:13:41 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 B7FD537B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 06:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from as4-1-7.va.g.bonet.se (as4-1-7.va.g.bonet.se [194.236.7.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4075E43E3B for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 06:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kristian@zarknet.tk) Received: (qmail 6207 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2002 15:07:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Fujitsu) (192.168.1.12) by 192.168.0.4 with SMTP; 3 Nov 2002 15:07:56 -0000 Message-ID: <009c01c28344$116917b0$0c01a8c0@Fujitsu> From: "Kristian Larsson" To: Subject: modifying freebsd installation!?! Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:19:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 Hi! I'd like to make somewhat of my own "distribution" of FreeBSD, if it's possible and it's license allows such act. When looking at the CD, there's like a million little files called .aa .ab .ac and so forth. I have customized my system and building it is no problem. But how do I transform my system into all those tiny little packages. From what I've understood the reason for having zillions of small files is that you could install the system with floppies, since I have no plan of installing "my" system with floppies this is no requirement for me. So if it is possible to create just a large file containing the whole system I'd be just as happy. Of course, I could always get picoBSD or some other small OS which fits on a floppy, write myself a couple of scripts to fetch the .tar.gz file containing my system extract them and then write a boot loader. But I would much rather use the better-looking install program of FreeBSD. Regards, Kristian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message