Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:57:56 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Jung, Michael" <mjung@npc.net> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Custom Release/Custom Install Disks Message-ID: <10323.922481876@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:08:01 EST." <c=US%a=_%p=Financial_Allian%l=EXCHANGE-990326200801Z-163048@exchange.finall.com>
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> I am in need of creating a custom 3.1-STABLE install disk that > contains the Compaq SmartArrary device IDA drivers > (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~md/ida/FreeBSD-3.1/) There's a much easier way of doing this. Get the latest 3.1-STABLE snapshot from: ftp://releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/3.1-... and pull kern.flp and mfsroot.flp out of the floppies/ subdirectory. Use dd or fdwrite to whap each onto a floppy disk in the usual way and then mount the kernel floppy as follows: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Now compile up a 3.1-stable kernel containing your IDA drivers and be sure to include: options MFS options MFS_ROOT In its config file. Take the resulting kernel, gzip it and then and copy kernel.gz to /mnt, overwriting the kernel that's there. ``umount /mnt'', pop the floppy out, walk over to your installation machine and boot from it. When prompted, insert the mfsroot floppy as normal and then proceed into the installation. If everything goes smoothly, you should see and be able to install onto your drives. If you want to do an FTP installation, select the releng3.freebsd.org server from the FTP servers list and it will also load the appropriate snapshot that goes with the original boot floppies. Now that the boot floppies are no longer "magic" (one nice consequence of going to 2 floppies), you can replace that kern.flp kernel with any one you like, just so long as the MFS and MFS_ROOT options are included. You also have the option of gzipping or not gzipping it, depending on size - the loader will deal with it either way. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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