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Date:      22 Aug 2002 09:43:38 +0300
From:      Patrick J Okui <pokui@one2net.co.ug>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a bootable CD?
Message-ID:  <1029998619.29884.16.camel@favour>
In-Reply-To: <20020821095246.U58573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
References:  <20020821095246.U58573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>

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In a related question.... I think I read somewhere that sysistall can be
scripted - anyone know where I can find any documentation on this?

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:56, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> In addition to all the other suggestions take a look at the livecd port.
> I recently munged their steps to produce a bootable CD that mounts /var,
> /tmp, and /home as MFS file systems and has enough tools on it to allow me
> to fiddle around with things.
> 
> I'm using it to quickly build a bunch of identical machines.  Boot off the
> cd, newfs the disk, and then restore (from a dump) the file systems.
> 
> Works great.
> 
> One thing to remember is that setuid programs sometimes lose their
> permissions if you don't take care to keep them intact and that mkisofs
> will remove them... see the -R and -r entries in the man page if you're
> interested in that aspect.
> 
> good luck!
> 
> -philip
> 
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Jimmy Lantz wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Hi, I'm interested on creating a bootable FreeBSD CD,
> > I've found this resource on the net,
> > http://bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html
> > Has anyone tried this? How dit it go?
> >
> > I would like to mount some dirs like /etc /tmp /var on disk and the rest on
> > CD, is it possible,
> > Last time I tried to move /etc to another disk than / I got into some
> > trouble, is /etc dependent to be on the same disk as / ?
> >
> > TIA, grateful for any input even RTFM's just direct me :-)
> > Jim.
> >
> >
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