Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:28:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Ivan Fetch <ifetch@cs.du.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Modifying FreeBSD base? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306141427420.14188-100000@everest.cs.du.edu>
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Hello, I'd like to modify the FreeBSD "base" (e.g. make changes to configuration files) - is there a way to do this without make world and creating my own distribution (the changes are simple enough I'd like to be able to role them into a modified base for now). It seemd like I could do the following: 1. cat base.?? > /tmp/filename.tar.gz 2. cd /tmp; mkdir base; tar -C base -xpzf ../base.tar.gz 3. Edit which ever files, and recreate a new base.tar.gz 4. use split(1) to split the tar.gz file up again 5. Recreate the CHECKSUM.MD5 file with lines for each base.?? file of the form: MD5 (base.aa) = md5_of_file Unfortunately the install complains about not being able to read the base distributions (doing an FTP install). What am I missing? Somewhere there's something else which appears to be telling the install it should expect a certain number of split base.?? files (I end up with a larger number of these, and can not seem to get split to let me create the same number as originally existed in). Thanks, Ivan Fetch.
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