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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:27:38 -0500
From:      Mike B <meb@cinci.rr.com>
To:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bootonly CDROM utilities
Message-ID:  <4040CF8A.90709@cinci.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <403FDFF1.6070805@forrie.com>
References:  <403FDFF1.6070805@forrie.com>

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Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> If we're going to have a bootable CD-R in the distribution, it might be 
> useful/handy to have ancilliary utilities on that disc, to do partition 
> mangling (etc) as well.   There's plenty of space now, at least.  ;-)

You might want to check out freesbie in the ports. It allows you to 
build and manipulate a mock FS before it gets packed with mkisofs. In my 
experience most of the scripts did work for creating the live fs but I 
had to manually copy the rc.live file from the freesbie dir to the 
livecd dir.

Mike



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