From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 4:43:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com (mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0F337B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 04:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from James_Bond_79@yahoo.com) Received: from Halstead007 (roc-24-169-196-57.rochester.rr.com [24.169.196.57]) by mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with SMTP id f4MBfg018825 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 07:41:42 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: complete system on a cd Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:44:32 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052207443200.67320@Halstead007> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First off I am not on the list so please cc me on all reply's. I am interested on creating a complete system on a cd. I have had a couple of thoughts on how to accomplish this and wanted to see what would be the best/easiest way. 1) cd is a complete root filesystem from / up, bootloader will consist of just a kernel which uses the cd as root. This seems to be pretty easy but lacks the ability to make little changes to the running system. Questions about this method: what is the best boot loader to use here, cdboot? rawboot? how is cdboot used? 2) have the bootloader load a kernel and mfsroot from the cd (not from the boot image) this way I can have a complete root filesystem on the cd, however I am not sure if any of our boot loaders can do this, or how to configure them too. Thanks for any tips/pointers to docs/whatever else is useful James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message