Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:04:48 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: Incoming Mail List <mailist@whoweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: custom boot disk Message-ID: <20040824080448.GG41956@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <200408232124.i7NLOETx071623@whoweb.com> References: <200408232124.i7NLOETx071623@whoweb.com>
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* Incoming Mail List <mailist@whoweb.com> [20040824 00:25]: wrote: > > Can anyone provide a pointer to a good how-to on creating a customized > bootable disk? Specifically, I'm trying to understand: > > 1) How do you create a 64mb (for example) memory file system as part > of the boot procedure? > > 2) How do you instruct init to mount the newly created memory file > system and then populate via an image containing system files? > > 3) How do you instruct init to start executing a specific shell or > "c" program once the memory file system is populated? There is a project called FreeSBIE. You can start by looking at their scripts! -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day.
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