Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:01:33 -0400 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org, kensmith@freebsd.org, mm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building your own FreeBSD USB memstick image Message-ID: <4DFC06FD.6010805@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110618012257.GA84652@icarus.home.lan> References: <20110618012257.GA84652@icarus.home.lan>
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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
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