From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 18:16:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE94B16A404 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:16:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921F413C455 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:16:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2FIFvxD075308; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:15:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <45F98D58.50202@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:15:52 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ewald Jenisch References: <20070315091426.GA950@aurora.oekb.co.at> In-Reply-To: <20070315091426.GA950@aurora.oekb.co.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:16:01 -0000 Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this > possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? IIRC, you actually need a CVS tree outside of /usr/src, unless your /usr/src is actually a repo copy of the CVS tree. It's been a while, so maybe I'm wrong on that. > If yes, how? I did this once, back after 6.0, for the experience as much as anything I can remember now. I don't seem to find any notes, however. release(7) is the canonical reference, and you should be able to do this after a fairly thorough study of same. > Will this process build build a "mini"-CD or a full "Disc1"? It depends on what you tell it to do. If MAKE_ISOS is defined, you will get all of the ISO's that are built with any standard release. I don't know if there are any variables to control *which* of the ISO's might be omitted, etc. I'm thinking maybe not, but IANAE. > Can this "home-brewn" install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the > 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? I don't see why not, as that is what it is designed for. We used "OurCompany-6.0-RELEASE" on a few servers back then. > Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various > packages? It should behave as any other of the FBSD CDs, providing you follow the instructions and burn the CD correctly. > Thanks in advance for any clue, > -ewald > > PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a > specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the > corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to > avoid the "chicken-and-egg-problem" (i.e. can't update the source > since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the > original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set > from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. A good reason to give it a try, I suppose. The Friendly manual is what you need, plus a bit of time for reading/planning and a fairly fast build machine --- or a *lot* of time on a slower box. Happy release(7)-ing! Kevin Kinsey -- 1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.