Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 00:32:02 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems creating a new release Message-ID: <200311090032.02717.dgw@liwest.at>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi list! I'm currently trying to create a Knoppix-like desktop system from 4.9 sources, with almost no sourcecode change. I made a new directory where I create the new system in, then I built the world and some of my favorite ports into this directory. For all this, I modified a shellscript I often use for installation, so it adds -DNOSTATIC to every make commandline to save space, and sets DESTDIR correctly. I'm having a few problems with some ports, and some questions about the changes I have to make. I'll mount /var, /tmp, /etc and /root as memory disks. For /tmp, /var and /root I guess I need to create the devices with vnconfig, and just mount them from /etc/fstab, right? For /etc, I'll modify init to mount the memory disk over the original /etc, create the config files based on the user's hardware and maybe even load saved configuration from a floppy. Would this work, or is it nonsense? And where can I insert my procedures to create the config files? (I only have basic C knowledge) Next problem: Some ports are badly behaved. For example, the /usr/X11R6 directory doesn't exist at all in the new system, although I built some X11 ports. Lots of them failed during the build. I have one program (not in the ports) with a Loki installer that doesn't want to install when locked into the new directory. It says: ELF binary type "0" not known. Regards, Daniela
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200311090032.02717.dgw>