Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:43:39 -0600 From: Hal Lynch <hal@cc.usu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AW: Bootable CD IV Message-ID: <a04320401b7186da5ad94@[129.123.1.184]>
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At 9:27 AM -0500 5/4/01, Mike Meyer wrote: >Rather than providing a single ISO image, a tool for building a >recover CD would be more generally useful. The hard part - as you've >found - is building the bootable CD. Scripting the recovery process >once you've booted the system should be straightforward, but needs to >be tailored to each individual installation. A tool that makes it easy >to build a bootable disk that starts the custom recovery script would >be more generally useful than a disk that tried to handle every >possible case. If you really want to do that, you can provide scripts >for those cases - or even a single large script that you've put on an >ISO image. > > <mike Listen to the man, Listen to the man! I have been following this thread with interest. The applications I have in mind are 'surf' stations for student use, and name/DHCP servers. I will put the non-volatile files on cdrom and volatile files on hard disk. Hopefully the systems will be very damage resistant. hal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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