Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 21:00:44 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating one's own installer/mfsroot Message-ID: <f1t5os$doi$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200705091123.13605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070DA1AE@svr1.irtnog.org> <200705091123.13605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:40, Matthew X. Economou wrote: >> Could anyone recommend a good guide for developing one's own mfsroot >> images suitable for recovery or scripted installation (not using >> sysinstall)? It appears that one could develop a simplified >> network-based installation process based around fdisk, disklabel, >> newfs, mount_ufs, fetch, and pax, perhaps tied together with the >> usual scripting tools (maybe miniperl or sh/sed/awk). > > You could see how make release & FreeSBiE do it. You could also look at the INSTALL guides for (early versions of?) Dragonfly, it taught me how to install a BSD system from scratch, using only what's in base of liveCD :) (I consider it a bad sign that I've actually needed that knowledge once to set up a production machine - I thought we're not in the stone age anymore :( ) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQhpcldnAQVacBcgRAq8sAKCl/SSwScgL0X7udr7oV1UNbaTUfQCg7m5J 47V5bDEwTA2N8Lg/Z3p9eBE= =ZZm6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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