Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:50:21 -0800 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <41D3269D.6020406@wadham.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <41D324EE.6070409@elischer.org> References: <41D31B8E.7030305@portaone.com> <41D31CEE.5040803@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <41D31EC9.5050909@portaone.com> <41D324EE.6070409@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> Checked release building scripts and found that there is some >> conditional code already which uses vn(4) on older system and md(4) on >> newer ones. Will try now to see if I can get it working. > > Didn't jkh point us at a utility that allows the generation of an image > without requiring any media? > > Or was it someone else? You're probably thinking of my ports/sysutils/makefs (borrowed shamelessly from NetBSD). Given a directory tree and some options (size of disk image, number of inodes, UFS1 vs. UFS2, etc.) it will create a UFS image. I use it in my depenguinator to install FreeBSD onto remote linux systems. (Extract the release tarballs into a staging directory, add some magic, build a UFS2 image, dd the image to the hard drive, and reboot.) Colin Percival
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