Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:39:53 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Ewald Jenisch" <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD? Message-ID: <02bd01c769f9$c99de590$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070315091426.GA950@aurora.oekb.co.at><01fc01c767a2$1e522010$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20070316133738.GA3288@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ewald Jenisch" <a@jenisch.at> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:37 AM Subject: Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD? > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > ... > > > > The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help > > it. > > If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me > > you > > really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. > > Hi Ted, > > I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could > post your "receipe" here? > > > > > Here is the easy way to fix this. > > > > 1) Burn a CD with the new driver > > > > 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel > > sources > > > > 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel > > source location it is supposed to be at > > > > 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. > > > > Nice "shortcut-tip"! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to > the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that > went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released. > No, not really. Once you get a working network driver you can cvsup to -current if you want. But I would not run a production server on that. Ted
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