From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 02:15:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C481065677 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [204.109.61.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86CE18FC20 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22491 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jun 2011 22:01:33 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO schism.local) (gjb@76.124.49.145) by 0 with SMTP; 17 Jun 2011 22:01:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4DFC06FD.6010805@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:01:33 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <20110618012257.GA84652@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20110618012257.GA84652@icarus.home.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org, kensmith@freebsd.org, mm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building your own FreeBSD USB memstick image X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:15:20 -0000 Hey, On 6/17/11 9:22 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > CC'ing Ken, Nathan, and Martin since they all have some insight to this > procedure. > > Given the recent MFC of graid(8) to RELENG_8, I'd like to make my own > FreeBSD USB memstick image but with the latest RELENG_8 kernel/world. > > For the USB memstick, I've found src/release/scripts/make-memstick.sh, > but there's no real explanation as to what "/path/to/directory" should > be, and that's probably because I'm not familiar with the "build a > base system" infrastructure. > /path/to/directory should be the 'R/' directory from the 'make release' process, a subdirectory of the CHROOTDIR target. > Is the procedure for creating new FreeBSD memstick images documented > anywhere? > I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I don't think so. The release process for 9.x builds the memstick by default, so I'm not sure it's worth updating the 7.x/8.x documentation for this. Regards, -- Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Documentation Project