Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
- Original Message - From: Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:37 AM Subject: Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD? On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: ... The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. Hi Ted, I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could post your receipe here? Here is the easy way to fix this. 1) Burn a CD with the new driver 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel sources 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel source location it is supposed to be at 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. Nice shortcut-tip! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released. No, not really. Once you get a working network driver you can cvsup to -current if you want. But I would not run a production server on that. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to build an ISO Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
- Original Message - From: Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:37 AM Subject: Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD? On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: ... The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. Hi Ted, I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could post your receipe here? OK you asked for it. Note this is -very rough- notes. It is notes that you use if you understand the procedure, not what you use as an educational explanation. You will probably need to change directory locations for the various invocations. I did a boot from bootable CDROM then network install setup filesystem : root 2G swap 1G var 2G usr 30G home dirs will be in /usr/home Select Kern-Developer, no Xwindows, no ports After reboots, sysinstall and install cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2 from the FTP site Also install a complete set of sources from the distribution media 8) Upgrade ports directories cd /root c) cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile . d) vi ports-supfile change mirror name cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org e) rehash f) cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile g) Create the index with the command make index or g) Fetch the index with the command make fetchindex now install cdrtools cd /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools make install Recompile and rebuild the entire system to make sure it's clean: cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel boot into single-user boot -s mount / mount /tmp mount all the rest of the system cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster ./mergemaster.sh -p (say no to delete temproot) cd /usr/src make installworld mergemaster reboot this results in a system that is a duplicate of the -release system if done right Now we start our updated builds: NOTE: These notes helped: http://romana.now.ie/writing/customfreebsdiso.html ) setup a cvsupfile for the rest of the system: e) cd /root cp ports-supfile release-supfile vi release-supfile and change the bottom half to: IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html. *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr/home/ncvs *default release=cvs (make sure to remove the tag here) *default delete use-rel-suffix # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try # commenting out the following line. (Normally, today's CPUs are fast enough # that you want to run compression.) *default compress # ports-all src-all doc-all cvsroot-all # ) init the cvs database: cvs -d /usr/home/ncvs init populate our local cvs database with the command: cvsup -g /root/release-supfile Now we got a local CVS synced to the master repository. Now, before we start tearing into the new stuff, let's create our old src and /usr/obj into a RELEASE by doing this: Now we make a unmodded release itself (takes about 3 hours): cd /usr/src/release make release RELEASETAG=RELENG_6_1 PORTSRELEASETAG=HEAD BUILDNAME=6.1-RELEASE CHROOTDIR=/usr/home/releng NODOC=yes NOPORTS=yes CVSRO OT=/usr/home/ncvs This will put the files to stage for the bootable ISO into /home/releng/R The kernel will go into /home/releng/R/cdrom/disc1/boot/kernel This will also put the files for FTP installation in /home/releng/R/ftp which must be used with the ISO image for an FTP installation if the CD drive becomes inaccessible during installation. cd /usr/home (makes it with no floppy emulation) sh /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh -b FreeBSD6 /usr/home/6.1-RELEASE-disc1.iso /usr/home/releng/R/cdrom/disc1 burn this CD and test it as a scratch install CD! Now to make a release off the current source for the tree: Since a whole lot of stuff has dependencies, we want to start by saving the existing RELEASE source tree (we might need it to regenerate a kernel) cd /usr mv src src.original Blow away old releases and such To delete the release then chflags -R noschg /usr/home/releng rm -r /usr/home/releng rm -r /usr/obj rm -r /usr/src cvsup -g /root/release-supfile (resync the src) Replace this with the current source we are working on: cd /usr cvs -d /usr/home/ncvs checkout src Now, before building a release, must buildworld (don't have to install it though) cd /usr/src make -j4 buildworld (approx 1.6 hours on 1.8Ghz Athlon with Promise FastTrack RAID chip with -j4 option) (only do this to check the kernel builds, not needed for a make release) make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC NOTE: this puts the CURRENT into /usr/obj Now we make a unmodded current release itself (takes about 3 hours): add audit:*:77: to /etc/group cd /usr/src/release make release RELEASETAG
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On 2007-03-16 14:37, Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. Hi Ted, I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could post your receipe here? Here is the easy way to fix this. 1) Burn a CD with the new driver 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel sources 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel source location it is supposed to be at 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. Nice shortcut-tip! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released. Ted is right that the process can take quite a while, and you have to be careful not to miss steps along the way. Please note, however, that thanks to the help of past members of the RE team, large pargs of the release engineering process of FreeBSD are documented in manpages like release(7), build(7) and in articles like ``FreeBSD Release Engineering''[1] and ``FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Packages''[2]. [1] http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/ [2] http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/ Before you embark on a mission to make your own CD-ROM or DVD of installable FreeBSD snapshots, it is a good idea to check out these references. They may be of help :-) Regards, Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
- Original Message - From: Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:14 AM Subject: Build your own ISO-install-CD? Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? Yes If yes, how? The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? all install disks, plus the mini, depending on what options you set. Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? yes Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? it is the same as the distributed install cd so yes. Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. Here is the easy way to fix this. 1) Burn a CD with the new driver 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel sources 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel source location it is supposed to be at 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. Way, way, way easier than making a custom cd Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: ... The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. Hi Ted, I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could post your receipe here? Here is the easy way to fix this. 1) Burn a CD with the new driver 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel sources 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel source location it is supposed to be at 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. Nice shortcut-tip! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released. Thanks for your hints! -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: ... The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. Hi Ted, I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could post your receipe here? Here is the easy way to fix this. 1) Burn a CD with the new driver 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel sources 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel source location it is supposed to be at 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. Nice shortcut-tip! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released. Thanks for your hints! -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Just download the disk1 iso image then use nero or cdcreator to burn the CD. -Derek At 04:14 AM 3/15/2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:22:36AM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: Just download the disk1 iso image then use nero or cdcreator to burn the CD. Please don't top-post. He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... -Derek At 04:14 AM 3/15/2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:02AM +0100, cpghost wrote: He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... Hi, Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I've already tried the following: cd /usr/src # make release -DMAKE_ISOS `release' is up to date. # yet, no .iso-files to find :-( I also came across /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh It needs the following params: mkisoimages.sh [-b] image-label image-name base-bits-dir [extra-bits-dir] Where is base-bits-dir supposed to be? -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On 3/15/07, Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I tried to find something about this in the FreeBSD docs, but I didn't look very hard: http://romana.now.ie/writing/customfreebsdiso.html From the article: I needed to install FreeBSD on a system (a Dell PowerEdge 400SC) with an LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 SCSI adapter. At that time support for this device was only available with an mpt driver patch that hadn't yet made it into FreeBSD. I needed to make install media that incorporated the mpt patch. It's for a different driver patch, not sure if it will work as I haven't tried it myself, and again it's not the FreeBSD docs, but hopefully it will help a bit. cd /usr/src # make release -DMAKE_ISOS `release' is up to date. # yet, no .iso-files to find :-( I also came across /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh The link I found was googled with mkisoimages.sh as the query string. Most of the results were from CVS check-ins, but if you want to search for more documentation, searching for things that mention that file could be a good start. It needs the following params: mkisoimages.sh [-b] image-label image-name base-bits-dir [extra-bits-dir] Where is base-bits-dir supposed to be? -ewald -Parker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? IIRC, you actually need a CVS tree outside of /usr/src, unless your /usr/src is actually a repo copy of the CVS tree. It's been a while, so maybe I'm wrong on that. If yes, how? I did this once, back after 6.0, for the experience as much as anything I can remember now. I don't seem to find any notes, however. release(7) is the canonical reference, and you should be able to do this after a fairly thorough study of same. Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? It depends on what you tell it to do. If MAKE_ISOS is defined, you will get all of the ISO's that are built with any standard release. I don't know if there are any variables to control *which* of the ISO's might be omitted, etc. I'm thinking maybe not, but IANAE. Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? I don't see why not, as that is what it is designed for. We used OurCompany-6.0-RELEASE on a few servers back then. Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? It should behave as any other of the FBSD CDs, providing you follow the instructions and burn the CD correctly. Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. A good reason to give it a try, I suppose. The Friendly manual is what you need, plus a bit of time for reading/planning and a fairly fast build machine --- or a *lot* of time on a slower box. Happy release(7)-ing! Kevin Kinsey -- 1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:02AM +0100, cpghost wrote: He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... Hi, Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I've already tried the following: cd /usr/src # make release -DMAKE_ISOS `release' is up to date. # I believe you're in the wrong WD. Check release(7). yet, no .iso-files to find :-( I also came across /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh It needs the following params: mkisoimages.sh [-b] image-label image-name base-bits-dir [extra-bits-dir] Where is base-bits-dir supposed to be? I dunno, 'cause in using 'make release' that script is used by make instead of us humans ... ;-) KDK -- The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes. -- Stanley Kubrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
