So I just tested the CD and it works perfectly. It boots, automatically
configure the interface and launches the SSH daemon. For me this is the
perfect tool to perform remote installations/fixing of FreeBSD. I just
send the compressed 100 MB ISO image to someone, have him to boot the
machine using the CD and then I log on the machine with SSH and do
whatever I want.
The only thing I had to do in addition to what I mentioned in my
previous emails is to create a script in rc.d that runs just after root
and that does the following:
mount /etc_tmp #Mount memory disk to /etc_tmp
cd /etc_tmp && tar -cp -C /etc -f - ./ | tar -xpf - #Copy content of
/etc to /etc_tmp
mount /etc #nullfs mount /etc_tmp over /etc
Obviously I have also changed the root password and created a user that
is a member of the wheel group.
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I
followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick:
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2
minus the fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs part . I just set up rc.conf to
configure the ethernet interface with DHCP and load sshd
then I am now creating an iso image with the boot image. So at the
root of the CD I will have the boot directory containing the kernel
subdirectory.
I figured out about the boot image error from mkisofs. I had to copy
cdboot into the actual boot directory for the image and the path
specified by the -b option is relative to the root directory of the CD...
So should this work according to you?
Thanks!
It is going to be an interesting experiment. The official install
CD/DVDs boot from boot/kernel on the CD but the root filesystem used is
actually in an mfs (memory disk). Also it executes sysinstall instead of
init at the end of the boot sequence. I suppose you can mount the root
filesystem from CD as read-only but you will have to handle things like
/var and /usr and you will probably need some writing capability. I am
sure this can be done in more than a few ways though I've never
researched this myself.
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