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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:29:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        mikebo@tellabs.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Making an install CD from FTPed files?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112202931.22079q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801072127.PAA08715@sunk31.tellabs.com>

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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 mikebo@tellabs.com wrote:

> Greetings -
> I've FTPed everything I think I need to burn my own FreeBSD install CD.
> However, I'm not sure what the 2.2.5-RELEASE install program expects as
> far as directory structure. Here's the inside of my FreeBSD directory:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  18 mikebo   staff        1024 Jan  7 14:48 2.2.5-RELEASE
> drwxr-xr-x   4 mikebo   staff         512 Oct  5 08:00 2.2.x-stuff
> drwxr-xr-x   3 mikebo   staff         512 Nov 11 12:34 XFree86
> drwxr-xr-x  39 mikebo   staff        1024 Jan  7 14:42 packages-2.2.5
> drwxr-xr-x   2 mikebo   staff         512 Jan  7 15:01 patches-2.2.5
> drwxr-xr-x   5 mikebo   staff         512 Oct 28 12:08 tools
> 
> This should be everything I need, but I noticed that the root directory
> of past CD distributions has looked more like the inside of 2.2.5-RELEASE.
> Thanks for any pointers...

Yes, that's true; you should move everything into 2.2.5-RELEASE then make
2.2.5-RELEASE the root directory of the new CD.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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