From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 24 9:29:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C99F37B402 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:29:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g1O6CLA74335; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:12:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:12:20 -0800 From: Nik Clayton To: agenkin-dated-1015380945.da0533@thpoon.com Cc: chat@freebsd.org, chat@gtabug.org Subject: Re: System to boot off CD-ROM, and into MFS Message-ID: <20020223221220.A74196@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <87k7t8euro.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <87k7t8euro.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>; from agenkin@thpoon.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:45:15PM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:45:15PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm looking for a starting point for this project. Any articles on > creating a bootable FreeBSD cd-roms? I guess that there has to be > some mechanism to transfer the needed files into the MFS system, once > the kernel has loaded, but before it mounted the root file system > (because the root file system is going to be on MFS). The > installation system must be doing something like that. Is that > documented somewhere? Take a look at http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D2158+0+archive/2002/freebsd-= advocacy/20020120.freebsd-advocacy which is information about a "FreeBSD Live CD" project which sounds like it could support exactly the sort of functionality you suggest. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjx4hEMACgkQk6gHZCw343U0wACfes/MvdVGieEpHGDYk6CnnayF w2kAnRWUP3KkVDCNbhXDeg/CrlP++AuX =qdLb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message