From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 3 22:00:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00328 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00323 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA15976; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:29:52 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA00298; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:29:31 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980804142931.L25942@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:29:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Karl Pielorz , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Custom fixit disks? References: <35C5BA51.E20BE12@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35C5BA51.E20BE12@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:25:37PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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