Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:56:34 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: crg <hackthis@texas.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: custom release / custom install.cfg Message-ID: <20010728175634.C1249@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <004201c116dd$0353eda0$6346a8c0@hackthis>; from hackthis@texas.net on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:45:02PM -0500 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D73@l04.research.kpn.com> <p0510100cb77ced816fa2@[128.113.24.47]> <20010720212726.B53370@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010721190105.B18482@freebie.xs4all.nl> <004201c116dd$0353eda0$6346a8c0@hackthis>
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:45:02PM -0500, crg wrote: > hackers: > > I built my own custom release and created a custom install.cfg file. > The file is good because I tested with a FreeBSD 4.3Release. > And it partitions my disk and installs the a custom bin distro. > > Now for my custom release, I deleted all bin.?? files and inserted some > of my own files and directories in the R/cdrom/disc2 filesystem. > Next, I created one big bin.aa file ~ 60M since I am going burn a CD. > > It works fine (partitions the disk) until it trys to "Extracting bin into /" > It hangs there. Yes debugging in the install.cfg file is set to yes and > after > I hit Alt-F2, the messages are not helpful at all. The last line reads: > DEBUG Trying for piece 1 of 1: bin/bin.aa > > I redid all the md5 checksums in CHECKSUM.MD5 and edited bin.inf. > > Can I just create another bin.?? file with my files and add it to the > bin.inf and do the md5 > checksum against it. And just add it to the bin directory on the iso image? > Or is this foul? I haven't tried replacing the bin.* files with one big file, but I think that this might be your problem: sysinstall might be trying to allocate memory for each chunk, and fail to allocate a 60MB chunk all at once. Could you try splitting your bin dist into a lot of smaller files, just as the original distribution does, and see if that works? G'luck, Peter -- If wishes were fishes, the antecedent of this conditional would be true. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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