Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
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 us

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
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

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
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 fdi

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
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

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 10/02/2010 11:56 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > I just realized that cdboot does not contain the kernel as boot.flp > used to, so I guess /boot/kernel has to be there... So it does not > seem to work with mkisofs. I did > > mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b ./cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 10/02/2010 11:39 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the > kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? > How exactly are you creating your image? The basic directories in a FreeBSD install iso are 'boot' (contai

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I just realized that cdboot does not contain the kernel as boot.flp used to, so I guess /boot/kernel has to be there... So it does not seem to work with mkisofs. I did mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b ./cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom -o custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i386_cd.iso custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i3

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: >> I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed >> that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the >> alternative to get a boot image to create my CD

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that th

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed > that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the > alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? > > Thanks! You just use the boot/cdboot file f

How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http