Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:32:20 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, clarso@eldocomp.com Subject: Re: Making a bootable disk2 from a make release? Message-ID: <20010915163220X.jkh@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010915134955.A18734@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <20010915214842.F1466-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au> <20010915115221N.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010915134955.A18734@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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There's nothing like that, either in docs or tools. Contributions always accepted. :) - Jordan From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Subject: Re: Making a bootable disk2 from a make release? Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:49:55 -0700 > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:52:21AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Yes, it probably should do this since there's already an ISO > > target to create the 2nd ISO, and this is an important 1st step > > (which I forgot about for some reason). > > Now that the 4.4-RELEASE thrash is settling down, I'd like to ask a > slightly different question. > > Is there a write up or a cookbook on creating custom, bootable CDs? > I'm imagining something a bit like the Pico floppies, but without > the crunchgen and other space saving tricks. Most machines these > days have CD-R drives and CD-RW are fast becoming wide-spread. > There's a large universe of machines that could use a CD instead of > a floppy to cold-start an application. > > In my particular case, I need to build a farm of web servers that > serve up dynamic content generated in a JRun servlet container that > accesses a PostgreSQL database. The JRun and PostgreSQL are running > on a Sun E3500, but the web servers will be FreeBSD/Apache. > > Since the web content is dynamic, and generated externally to the > FreeBSD boxes, the web servers will be pretty static. I want to > generate bootable CDs with our particular applications and utilities, > rather than worrying how to back them up and maintain them in the > Internet DMZ they'll live in. It also makes a warm standby system > easier to manage. > > The machines are in 1U boxes, with a hard drive, a floppy and a CD-R > drive, plus 2 Ethernet NICs. The hard drive (you can't by anything > smaller than a couple of Gig these days) will provide storage of > configuration data that needs to survive a reboot, and swap space. > It's not clear to me if it would be better to copy binaries from the > CD to the hard drive on each boot, or just configure a large swap > space and let that happen on the fly as they are used. > > Anyway, I think a tool set that allows the generation of such a > gizwhacky would be a useful addition. Any pointers to a starter > set, or the information I'd need? Seems like the portion of the > "make release" that generates the 2nd ISO would be a good starting > point, but with some configuration tools like Pico uses to decide > what all goes onto the bootable live filesystem. > > > - Jordan > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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