Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:54:47 -0500 From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@iaces.com> To: iv gan <devif0@gmail.com> Cc: Damon Blom <surferdamon@adelphia.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make own freebsd distro Message-ID: <430DE9C7.7060304@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <356446ef05082508106af3c0a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200508250749.14179.surferdamon@adelphia.net> <356446ef05082508106af3c0a@mail.gmail.com>
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Way back in the, I'd have to guess, 2.2.8 days. I made my own distro on CD, for my multiple desktops. It was a boot floppy (I think I had the CD boot) and a script to partition, newfs, etc. the disk, and then do a restore from the dumps I made of the template machine. Then the script went through setting the hostname, and such, in the file that was replaced by rc.conf. /etc/sysconfig maybe? It was a long time ago. It wasn't particularly fast, but it worked. iv gan wrote: > Try man sysinstall. You can easily script the sysinstall and create an > install.cfg and personalize the installation including packages, > config files, users to add, etc. It is a bit tricky but it is enough > powerfll for your needs I think so. > So first try a mfsroot file. Then mount it on your machine > mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 0 -f /path/to/mfsroot > mount /dev/md0 /mnt/mfs > > In /mnt/mfs then you have to create install.cfg there is an example of > that file somewhere on your disk, don't remember anymore. Then put > back the mfsroot in /your/disk/to/burn/boot/ > Then mkisofs it and cdrecord it etc. > > And that's all. Another solution is to set up a installation server. > This is also covered by sysinstall. A nice howto is situated at > http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml. > > What else. If you really need to put in on a cd you can probably use > an emulator like qemu to see if things work before burn etc.. > good luck > > Ivo > > > On 8/25/05, Damon Blom <surferdamon@adelphia.net> wrote: > >>Hi >> I have a current-freebsd 7.0 amd64 system on my Presario 3000. Is there any >>way I can make a freebsd distro cd (disk 1 and disk2 ) of my system so I can >>easily put it on other presarios or easily reinstall it back on my notebook >>after disk crash? >> Thank's >> Damon >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ______ Paul T. Root / _ \ 1977 MGB / /|| \\ ||\/ || _ | || || || \ ||__// \______/
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