There's nothing like that, either in docs or tools. Contributions
always accepted. :)
- Jordan
From: "Chad R. Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making a bootable disk2 from a make release?
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:49:55 -0700
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:52:21AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > Yes, it probably should do this since there's already an ISO
> > target to create the 2nd ISO, and this is an important 1st step
> > (which I forgot about for some reason).
>
> Now that the 4.4-RELEASE thrash is settling down, I'd like to ask a
> slightly different question.
>
> Is there a write up or a cookbook on creating custom, bootable CDs?
> I'm imagining something a bit like the Pico floppies, but without
> the crunchgen and other space saving tricks. Most machines these
> days have CD-R drives and CD-RW are fast becoming wide-spread.
> There's a large universe of machines that could use a CD instead of
> a floppy to cold-start an application.
>
> In my particular case, I need to build a farm of web servers that
> serve up dynamic content generated in a JRun servlet container that
> accesses a PostgreSQL database. The JRun and PostgreSQL are running
> on a Sun E3500, but the web servers will be FreeBSD/Apache.
>
> Since the web content is dynamic, and generated externally to the
> FreeBSD boxes, the web servers will be pretty static. I want to
> generate bootable CDs with our particular applications and utilities,
> rather than worrying how to back them up and maintain them in the
> Internet DMZ they'll live in. It also makes a warm standby system
> easier to manage.
>
> The machines are in 1U boxes, with a hard drive, a floppy and a CD-R
> drive, plus 2 Ethernet NICs. The hard drive (you can't by anything
> smaller than a couple of Gig these days) will provide storage of
> configuration data that needs to survive a reboot, and swap space.
> It's not clear to me if it would be better to copy binaries from the
> CD to the hard drive on each boot, or just configure a large swap
> space and let that happen on the fly as they are used.
>
> Anyway, I think a tool set that allows the generation of such a
> gizwhacky would be a useful addition. Any pointers to a starter
> set, or the information I'd need? Seems like the portion of the
> "make release" that generates the 2nd ISO would be a good starting
> point, but with some configuration tools like Pico uses to decide
> what all goes onto the bootable live filesystem.
>
> > - Jordan
>
> -crl
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