From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 19 18:46:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.thpoon.com (CPE0080c8f2c614.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.42.106.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9587437B404 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23865 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2002 02:46:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tea.thpoon.com) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 20 Feb 2002 02:46:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 1748 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Feb 2002 02:45:16 -0000 To: chat@freebsd.org, chat@gtabug.org Subject: System to boot off CD-ROM, and into MFS X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Reply-To: agenkin-dated-1015380944.4c2893@thpoon.com Mail-Reply-To: agenkin-dated-1015380945.da0533@thpoon.com Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:45:15 -0500 Message-ID: <87k7t8euro.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Arcady Genkin" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; linux-i686) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd like to create a functional FreeBSD system, which would boot off a bootable CD-ROM, then transfer all necessary files into an MFS, and operate after that completely independent of the CD-ROM (especially, it needs to be tolerant to IDE device failures). The memory size can be around 256M, so I don't think that I need to go the way of PicoBSD. I'm looking for a starting point for this project. Any articles on creating a bootable FreeBSD cd-roms? I guess that there has to be some mechanism to transfer the needed files into the MFS system, once the kernel has loaded, but before it mounted the root file system (because the root file system is going to be on MFS). The installation system must be doing something like that. Is that documented somewhere? Many thanks for any pointers, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everyting you believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message