From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 17 19:49:52 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 6AD8916A400 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:49:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCB213C45E for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:49:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup204.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.204]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l2HJmkdN000818 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:48:55 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2HJmTlT071588; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:48:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l2HIbk1K050344; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:37:46 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:37:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ewald Jenisch Message-ID: <20070317183745.GA47438@kobe.laptop> References: <20070315091426.GA950@aurora.oekb.co.at> <01fc01c767a2$1e522010$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20070316133738.GA3288@aurora.oekb.co.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070316133738.GA3288@aurora.oekb.co.at> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.272, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.12, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, SUBJ_YOUR_OWN 0.81) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt 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: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:49:52 -0000 On 2007-03-16 14:37, Ewald Jenisch wrote: >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. Ted is right that the process can take quite a while, and you have to be careful not to miss steps along the way. Please note, however, that thanks to the help of past members of the RE team, large pargs of the release engineering process of FreeBSD are documented in manpages like release(7), build(7) and in articles like ``FreeBSD Release Engineering''[1] and ``FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Packages''[2]. [1] http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/ [2] http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/ Before you embark on a mission to make your own CD-ROM or DVD of installable FreeBSD snapshots, it is a good idea to check out these references. They may be of help :-) Regards, Giorgos