From owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 13:11:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A2A16A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digiflux.org (43.Red-80-59-151.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.59.151.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41EA243FBF for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olivas@digiflux.org) Received: from digiflux.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by digiflux.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h8PKAxZG029558; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:11:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olivas@digiflux.org) Received: from 10.0.0.56 (SquirrelMail authenticated user olivas) by digiflux.org with HTTP; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:11:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3343.10.0.0.56.1064520660.squirrel@digiflux.org> In-Reply-To: <3F72500B.7090203@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3F72500B.7090203@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:11:00 +0200 (CEST) From: olivas@digiflux.org To: "Eno Thereska" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.x sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-config@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Installation and Configuration List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:11:08 -0000 > Hi, > > I am currently upgrading from FreeBSD 4.8 to FreeBSD 5.x. > The reason is that I would like to try some of the > new features provided in 5.x, particulartly snapshots. > > I have a "kickstart" floppy that has served me well for > BSD4.4 and 4.8. It has a kernel configured following > the PICOBSD instructions. It automatically connects to an NFS > server where the distributions are and installs > them on the machine automatically (from an install.cfg > file I provide at a well-known location). > > In FreeBSD 5.0 things aren't working. First of all, > instead of the bin directory there is a base directory > that is somehow confusing the original sysinstall. > Secondly, the PICOBSD code doesn't compile on > BSD5.0 and I haven't seen new source files. > Eno, When I made WarBSD, I used the FreeBSD 5.0 sources and had to make some modifications to the PicoBSD scripts. They will work just fine for your purposes. You can find these mods here: http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch2 http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch3 http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch4 This should help with one of your problems. -Stacy