Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:12:15 +1000 From: "Andrew Hannam" <famzon@bigfoot.com> To: "Paul Robinson" <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Still confused on what I assume to be a simple problem... Message-ID: <008001c0f614$7f517ec0$8b420acb@andrewhnb> References: <20010614125404.M20238@akita.co.uk> <20010615002715.O83795-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> <20010615092347.G23043@akita.co.uk>
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PicoBSD at some stage builds a floppy image using a vn device appropriately configured. I would suggest that you increase the size of the vn image to match the size of the image for your CD and comment out the part of the pico build that places that onto a floppy. Once the (now large) floppy image is built - remount it using vnconfig and then use mkfsiso to create a CD image from it. You may want to set the necessary options to make it build a separate MFS image rather than squashing it into the kernel. Once you have that working you may also want to try getting rid of the MFS root file system altogether and use the CD as the root file system. This however may not be necessary for your application. Good luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Robinson" <paul@akita.co.uk> To: "Andrew Gordon" <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:23 PM Subject: Re: Still confused on what I assume to be a simple problem... > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:31:10AM +0100, Andrew Gordon wrote: > > > The issue here is that you have decided to use PicoBSD rather than a > > normal system. Putting a normal system on CD is fairly straightforward, > > and is almost certainly what you want to do unless you have peculiar > > requirements that you haven't stated. > > I don't think you understand. From other posts (that may or may not have made > it to the list), I've stated that this is a completely custom piece of > software. This is not a BSD box for the use of BSD - it's a box that runs > in-house software to do one particular job, and it happens to have been > written for BSD. All I want is a kernel, some libraries, a few applications, > some rc scripts and the ability to dial up with a modem. The machine will go > onto a customer's site in the middle of god knows where. I don't want anything > on it that does not have to be there. This CD is not for use - it's for > automated installation. A very, very, very specific installation designed for > people who have never seen a command line in their lives. They *certainly* > don't want to know about disk partitions, disklabel, etc. as that defeats the > object of this exercise. > > In other words, I want PicoBSD. A modified install image. But the libraries > and apps are a bit chunky, can't be shrunk and therefore I need to burn it up > to CD. The customer takes the CD, puts it in his machine, 10 minutes later > they fill in some details they are prompted for (custom stuff I'm doing), and > that's it. They have a working system, on the hard disk, fully installed, and > they never have to think about it again. > > I have to say, I am mildly suprised that I've had a lot of feedback from this > list both on an off list that basically goes on about how I must be a moron, > and that I should be using standard FreeBSD installs. It's not helpful, and > I'd appreciate that unless you know the answer to what I want to do (build an > ISO of a custom picobsd image) that you don't use me as a channel to tell the > world how rubbish you think PicoBSD is. If that is how you feel, perhaps > you're on the wrong mailing list. :-) > > -- > Paul Robinson - Technical Director .---------------------------------------- > PO Box 604, Manchester, M60 3PR | A computer lets you make more mistakes > T: +44 (0) 161 228 6388 (F: 6389) | than any other invention, with the > http://www.akita.co.uk | possible exceptions of handguns and > paul@akita.co.uk | Tequila -- Mitch Ratcliffe > `--- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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