From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 22:05:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F6F16A4CE; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:05:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441C943D4C; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:05:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C617A425; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:05:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41D32A23.1000304@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:05:23 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Percival References: <41D31B8E.7030305@portaone.com> <41D31CEE.5040803@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <41D31EC9.5050909@portaone.com> <41D324EE.6070409@elischer.org> <41D3269D.6020406@wadham.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <41D3269D.6020406@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Maxim Sobolev cc: re@freebsd.org cc: "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:05:23 -0000 Colin Percival wrote: > 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.) yep that's it.. we REALLY should use this in the release. I though t I saw jhb using it in a p4 tree at one time (but I may have been dreaming). does it work for machines other than i386 (e.g. machines with big-endian UFS)? > > > Colin Percival