From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 21:24:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FC816A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:24:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [216.38.168.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF9043D49 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:24:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailist@whoweb.com) Received: from whoweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7NLOELn071624 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:24:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mailist@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7NLOETx071623 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:24:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:24:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Incoming Mail List Message-Id: <200408232124.i7NLOETx071623@whoweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: custom boot disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:24:32 -0000 Can anyone provide a pointer to a good how-to on creating a customized bootable disk? Specifically, I'm trying to understand: 1) How do you create a 64mb (for example) memory file system as part of the boot procedure? 2) How do you instruct init to mount the newly created memory file system and then populate via an image containing system files? 3) How do you instruct init to start executing a specific shell or "c" program once the memory file system is populated? J