From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 19:19:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874E71065673 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:19:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B2E8FC08 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1PzwFl-0003E2-7o>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:19:29 +0100 Received: from e178022071.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.22.71] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1PzwFl-0008D4-3x>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:19:29 +0100 Message-ID: <4D810D40.4020905@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:19:28 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110305 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Plant References: <4D808FB8.6010503@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4D80FD2D.3060609@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <4D80FD2D.3060609@hdk5.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 85.178.22.71 Cc: Manolis Kiagias , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CURRENT custom ISO install image: howto? 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: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:19:30 -0000 On 03/16/11 19:10, Al Plant wrote: > O. Hartmann wrote: >> I'm desperately looking for howto creating my own FreeBSD >> 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 custom installation DVD. Google delivers a lot of >> outdated stuff and I wasn't able to find some hints in the handbook, >> so maybe one here can help. >> >> I've already all sources via 'svn' (no CVS) on the local box. The >> intention is to be able to use new bsdinstall instead of sysinstall >> for having GPT partitions. >> >> Please set me CC if responding. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Oliver >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Aloha Oliver, > > On the list is Manolis Kiagias. He makes install disks possible. > > I also copied him on this reply. He helped me with making an install > disk for my projects and he can most likely point you to his how to > methods. > Hello out there. Thank you very much. The last time I tried making a install media from a local installation is quite a lot of years since. I found " man release(7)" very helpful, but at the end it turns out that I didn't understood what is happening. I tried to fullfill all prerequisites needed to make a release, i.e. 1) having a populated /usr/src (SVN managed), I recently made a 'make buildworld', I created a suitable release-folder to chroot to for the release and I issued MAKE_DVD=yes and MAKE_ISOS=yes to ensure the build of ISO images for a DVD. I'll show the command issued at the end. But the build-process seems to drop everything it builds into /usr/src/release (from where the commande 'make release' has to be issued as docuemnted in 'release (7)'. Here's the command: Folders /home/release and /usr/src exists, 'make buildworld' has been issued and successfully finished. The following commands are issued regarding the release (7) manpage: cd /usr/src/release make release SVNROOT=/usr/src NODOC=yes MAKE_DVD=yes MAKE_ISOS=yes\ CHROOTDIR=/home/release BUILDNAME=SOMETHING_NEW I do not ommit TARGET_ARCH and TARGET since I do not crossbuild (I'm on amd64). The outcome is that the make-release process seems to flood /usr/src/release as it never 'chroot' to the given CHROOTDIR. I'm not familiar with this and I exepct this to be a kind of mistake. Correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, Oliver