From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 7:43:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dopey.usu.edu (dopey.usu.edu [129.123.1.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184E737B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 07:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hal@cc.usu.edu) Received: from [129.123.1.184] ("port 49183"@buffy.usu.edu [129.123.1.184]) by cc.usu.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #39375) with ESMTP id <01K35RO8NKCSBB1MVW@cc.usu.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 4 May 2001 08:43:42 MDT Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:43:39 -0600 From: Hal Lynch Subject: Re: AW: Bootable CD IV To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > >