Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:48:29 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Subject: Re: How to make release for *memstick.img Message-ID: <201001071148.47309.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20100107001709.V50666@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20100107001709.V50666@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to make release for *memstick.img
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:48:29 +1030
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote:
> trying to figure out how 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img was made, with
> a view to, well, knowing how it's done, so perhaps I could do some
> more.
>
> I've been studying release(7) and src/release/* for a while now, over
> a few releases. I've learned a lot, and while there's plenty I've
> skimmed over the finer detail, I have some sort of grip on how
> floppy, cdrom and dvd ISOs are made, but can't see how the memstick
> images were generated.
>
> Are there some pointers somewhere to the particular recipe used?
I'm not sure about _the_ way, but _a_ way is to use makefs to create an=20
image of /boot from the CD/DVD and then use syslinux to make it=20
bootable.
See the attached script, you run it like so..
/tmp/makeusb.sh /tmp/7.2-release/R/cdrom/dvd1 /dev/da1
(it will destroy /dev/da1, so be careful :)
It requires the sysutils/syslinux port be installed to work.
Once it's done copy /tmp/7.2-release/R/cdrom/dvd1/7.2-STABLE to the USB=20
stick.
Now you should be able to boot off the stick and install from a DOS=20
device (ie the memory stick).
--=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
-- Andrew Tanenbaum
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