From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 19:52:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678CE1065673 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:52:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73C58FC18 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.local ([10.0.0.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o35JqYg8017255 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:52:34 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BBA3F82.20705@unsane.co.uk> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:52:34 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:52:36 -0000 On 05/04/2010 18:03, Peter Steele wrote: > We have a USB boot stick based cloning process that we're considering porting to a DVD based media. I'm not sure though that it's possible due to the restrictions I've seen in the mfsroot environment we'd have to use. For example, in our USB disk procedure, we create partitions using gpart and set up mirroring for the OS partitions. We even recognize 3Ware controllers and automatically create logical RAID sets from the available drives. In some earlier work I did with a pxe boot server a couple of years ago, I know that I could not setup mirrors via sysinstall and I assume that hasn't changed in FreeBSD 8. Is it possible to customize the mfsroot environment to run a larger variety of commands to allow us to duplicate the cloning process we use with USB boot sticks or is this project likely not doable? > > It sounds like http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ would be helpful to you. (I havent used it yet due to lack of time but it looks good.) Vince > _______________________________________________ > 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" >