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Date:      Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:26:23 -0400
From:      Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
To:        Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, clarso@eldocomp.com
Subject:   Re: Making a bootable disk2 from a make release?
Message-ID:  <20010915222623.A25041@electricjellyfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010915220805.B42156@neutrino.bsdhome.com>; from bsd@bsdhome.com on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:08:05PM -0400
References:  <20010915214842.F1466-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au> <20010915115221N.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010915134955.A18734@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20010915163220X.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010915220805.B42156@neutrino.bsdhome.com>

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On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:08:05PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > There's nothing like that, either in docs or tools.  Contributions
> > always accepted. :)
> > 
> > - Jordan
> 
> Feel free to take a look at:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~bsd/cdroot/
> 
> These are the scripts that I use to create a full FreeBSD installation
> that runs from CD-ROM.  While these scripts have a few issues (they
> require /bin/ksh for one thing) they work quite well.  If there is
> general interest in something like this, I will remove the requirement
> on /bin/ksh, and tidy things up and commit these somewhere (somewhere
> under /usr/src/release, or as a port if that is preferred).

i would be interested in having such a thing in either ports or the
base system.  i've wanted such a thing several times, as have several
other people i know.  almost all of the people i've heard ask about
such things get frustrated half way through making it work, so having
something like this in the base to work from would probably be helpful
to many people.

-garrett

-- 
garrett rooney                     Unix was not designed to stop you from 
rooneg@electricjellyfish.net       doing stupid things, because that would  
http://electricjellyfish.net/      stop you from doing clever things.

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