From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 22 2:44:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D134237B405 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 02:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-311.wobline.de [212.68.71.32]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fBMAiS815598 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:44:28 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (poison.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.5]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBMAkKX45792 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:46:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBMAisj02409 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:44:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:44:18 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Creating a bootable CD for a custom release Message-ID: <20011222114418.A2390@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poison.ncptiddische.net 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-Machine-Uptime: 11:39AM up 1:23, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I recently experimented around a little, and found out that creating a custom FreeBSD release is a rather straightforward thing. I did it just as explained in /usr/src/release/Makefile, and in the end I ended up with a nice distribution that I could burn to CD as well as with a bunch of floppy images that I could dd to /dev/fd0 so that I ended up with a way to boot into the installation process of my "home-made" release. Now, I guess it should be possible somehow to actually make the release CDs I burn bootable. I have noticed that mkisofs can create bootable CD images, but I still didn't fully figure out how to actually get it done. So, if anyone's ever done this (I guess so), I'd appreciate a short explanation of what to do after "make release" and before burning the release CDs, so that I can actually boot the installation straight from the CDs. Thanks in advance, Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message