From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 13:57:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B93106566B for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7C28FC0A for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o06Dv65e059888 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:57:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:57:05 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100107001709.V50666@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: How to make release for *memstick.img X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:57:09 -0000 Hi, trying to figure out how 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img was made, with a view to, well, knowing how it's done, so perhaps I could do some more. I've been studying release(7) and src/release/* for a while now, over a few releases. I've learned a lot, and while there's plenty I've skimmed over the finer detail, I have some sort of grip on how floppy, cdrom and dvd ISOs are made, but can't see how the memstick images were generated. Are there some pointers somewhere to the particular recipe used? cheers, Ian