From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 19 19:12:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from h97.c194.tor.velocet.net (H97.C194.tor.velocet.net [216.138.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D222337B41B for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:12:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 75237 invoked by uid 0); 20 Feb 2002 03:12:08 -0000 Received: from h97.c194.tor.velocet.net (HELO jester) (216.138.194.97) by 192.168.1.11 with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 20 Feb 2002 03:12:08 -0000 Message-ID: <04c001c1b9bc$6b70cf70$8001a8c0@jester> From: "Rod Taylor" To: , , References: <87k7t8euro.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Subject: Re: gtabug - System to boot off CD-ROM, and into MFS Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:10:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Excellent project. You might want to look into the bootable ISO, and rc.diskless1, rc.diskless2 scripts (or their equivelent). There is a section in the handbook about making a diskless workstation as well -- which is basically what you're attempting. Finally, if you accomplish something significant I'm sure there are lots of people who would also be interested in using something like this (I'm one of them). Making generation of the disk set a part of the BSD make world system would be a good way to ensure it's kept working with future revisions (convince the release engineer to test it out or even use it to fire up the installer in the case of FreeBSD and their new Graphical Installer). I heavily suggest looking into devfs for /dev. At RCC I had converted the lab to a diskless scenario at one point during some of our meetings out there. Used one of Geoffry's machines. Quite fun. Worked ok, but I can think of lots of things I would have changed about it. If I wasn't knee deep in the addition of DOMAIN support for PostgreSQL I'd pitch in to help. -- Rod Taylor This message represents the official view of the voices in my head ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arcady Genkin" To: ; Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:45 PM Subject: gtabug - System to boot off CD-ROM, and into MFS > 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 subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@gtabug.org with the text > "subscribe chat" or "unsubscribe chat" in the body. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message