Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:08:20 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts doFS.sh src/release/sysinstall Makefile Message-ID: <20030307090820.GA74413@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20030307082805.GA7467@sunbay.com> References: <200303070818.h278I08L011979@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030307082805.GA7467@sunbay.com>
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> There are some tweaks that need to be done for this to work.
>
> 1. You need to install the Perl port under ${CHROOTDIR}.
>
> 2. Because you're using the 4.x release/Makefile (you should),
> you must mount_devfs manually into the ${CHROOTDIR}/dev.
> (This can easily be dealt with automatically by merging
> the devfs portion of the -CURRENT src/release/Makefile.)
It looks like the -CURRENT src/release/Makefile also works
provided that you set BASE_DISTS=bin. Then it will take care
of devfs.
> 3. newfs(8) has issues (creates too many cylinder groups for
> a 1.44MB floppy) as compared to 4.x. Important: this also
> similarly affects the free space for 5.x floppies -- it
> just wastes their free space for no good reason.
>
John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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