From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 19 07:41:08 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 4AA5216A403 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:41:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1052C13C480 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from coolf89ea26645 (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l2J7f59Q016432; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <02bd01c769f9$c99de590$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Ewald Jenisch" References: <20070315091426.GA950@aurora.oekb.co.at><01fc01c767a2$1e522010$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20070316133738.GA3288@aurora.oekb.co.at> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:39:53 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:41:07 -0700 (PDT) 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: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:41:08 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ewald Jenisch" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:37 AM Subject: Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD? > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > ... > > > > The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help > > it. > > If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me > > you > > really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. > > Hi Ted, > > I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could > post your "receipe" here? > > > > > Here is the easy way to fix this. > > > > 1) Burn a CD with the new driver > > > > 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel > > sources > > > > 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel > > source location it is supposed to be at > > > > 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. > > > > Nice "shortcut-tip"! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to > the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that > went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released. > No, not really. Once you get a working network driver you can cvsup to -current if you want. But I would not run a production server on that. Ted