From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 03:25:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3B1106566C for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 03:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505b.appriver.com [98.129.35.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971618FC08 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 03:25:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.45 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht03.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G179 G180 G181 G182 G186 G187 G198 G285 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.45] (HELO HT03.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 31793545 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:25:39 -0500 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.132]) by HT03.exg5.exghost.com ([10.242.228.75]) with mapi; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:25:38 -0500 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:25:36 -0500 Thread-Topic: How customized can an mfsroot be? Thread-Index: AcrWk3TQxvnLRjglRY2tBxYeuiXO7gAN0VXA Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B787E7A@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FDD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-cr-hashedpuzzle: AAVI AbL7 BECg BiY5 DEwn DWES Dkc9 EFwq EQoZ EgKj E9wz GOUm GTWD HLpL HXnl JXm4; 1; ZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAtAHEAdQBlAHMAdABpAG8AbgBzAEAAZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAuAG8AcgBnAA==; Sosha1_v1; 7; {407FC005-FB0C-4A0E-8E82-76C53A8B58BB}; cABzAHQAZQBlAGwAZQBAAG0AYQB4AGkAcwBjAGEAbABlAC4AYwBvAG0A; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:25:36 GMT; UgBFADoAIABIAG8AdwAgAGMAdQBzAHQAbwBtAGkAegBlAGQAIABjAGEAbgAgAGEAbgAgAG0AZgBzAHIAbwBvAHQAIABiAGUAPwA= x-cr-puzzleid: {407FC005-FB0C-4A0E-8E82-76C53A8B58BB} acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:25:39 -0000 >Not that I know of, unless you use the advantages of mfs then. Full circl= e, bud. Now you're asking for necessities of the mfs or mfsroot systems. I don't want to go there, and don't need to. I came up with a simple way to= populate /var from the original contents so I'm happy. The CD boots, clone= s itself onto the target system's hard drive, and then shutdown. The end re= sult is an auto-installed BSD system ready for use.