Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:29:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Custom fixit disks? Message-ID: <19980804142931.L25942@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35C5BA51.E20BE12@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:25:37PM %2B0100 References: <35C5BA51.E20BE12@tdx.co.uk>
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On Monday, 3 August 1998 at 14:25:37 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi All, > > I need to change a couple of utilities on the system fixit disks that I use... > The disks contents (when mounted under '/mnt') look kind of weird... All the > executables in /stand appear to be 1meg+ each? They're all the same file, with a link count of about 58. Take a look at /stand on your system. > Is there any where I can get some details on this - I had a quick look through > the handbook and didn't find anything... What do you want to know? How to change a utility? It's part of the release build process, and so emetic that not many people bother. > I have statically linked copies of 'team' and 'nc' that I need on the fixit > disk, as well as all the gubbins to rebuild a filesystem (i.e. fsk, newfs, > disklabel etc.) > > Can anyone offer any pointers to more information on building fixit disks? Take a look at the 'release' target in /usr/src/release/Makefile. If you have a CD-ROM drive on the system, it makes more sense to mount the live file system CD-ROM and run everything from there. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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