From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 16:52:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DF937B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC4A43E3B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7TNqiKx028783; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:52:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7TNqhDF028780; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:52:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:52:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Earle Lyons Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 LIVE CD??? In-Reply-To: <003b01c24fb0$a1adde40$6501a8c0@computer> Message-ID: <20020829163820.V24435-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm no expert on it, but I recently did the same thing. I think the livecd port as it stands initially is meant for more of a emergency/repair disk, however it's not that heard to do a little more with it. Just look through the scripts and see what it's doing, then modify to suit. The biggest thing I noticed was that for an actual system you need to pass "-R" to mkisofs in order to preserve file permissions. Otherwise things like 'su' lose their setuid bit which is a problem if you want to su. For their stuff (in an emergency/repair) mode you're probably root to begin with so it doesn't really matter. -philip On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Earle Lyons wrote: > Can someone point me to some information regarding the FreeBSD 4.6 LIVE CD? > I have checked the FAQ and Handbook on www.freebsd.org and I have also > conducted a search on www.google.com. I did stumble across the FreeBSD > LiveCD project on Sourceforge that was somewhat helpful. > > I was under the impression that the LIVE CD was a self-bootable, > self-contained version of FreeBSD. However, when I boot it up it looks more > like a repair disc, rather than a LIVE distro. Is that correct? > > Thanks, > -e. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message