From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 19:01:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B52D16A404 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 19:01:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E3013C45E for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 19:01:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HlrPD-0003EC-Bo for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 21:00:55 +0200 Received: from 78-0-67-12.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.0.67.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 21:00:55 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 78-0-67-12.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 21:00:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 21:00:44 +0200 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <200705091123.13605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6DE9DD7B26C5766A651A7A8D" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-0-67-12.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: <200705091123.13605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Creating one's own installer/mfsroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:01:04 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6DE9DD7B26C5766A651A7A8D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:40, Matthew X. Economou wrote: >> Could anyone recommend a good guide for developing one's own mfsroot >> images suitable for recovery or scripted installation (not using >> sysinstall)? It appears that one could develop a simplified >> network-based installation process based around fdisk, disklabel, >> newfs, mount_ufs, fetch, and pax, perhaps tied together with the >> usual scripting tools (maybe miniperl or sh/sed/awk). >=20 > You could see how make release & FreeSBiE do it. You could also look at the INSTALL guides for (early versions of?) Dragonfly, it taught me how to install a BSD system from scratch, using only what's in base of liveCD :) (I consider it a bad sign that I've actually needed that knowledge once to set up a production machine - I thought we're not in the stone age anymore :( ) --------------enig6DE9DD7B26C5766A651A7A8D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQhpcldnAQVacBcgRAq8sAKCl/SSwScgL0X7udr7oV1UNbaTUfQCg7m5J 47V5bDEwTA2N8Lg/Z3p9eBE= =ZZm6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6DE9DD7B26C5766A651A7A8D--