Re: Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Tim Judd writes: ^^^ mkisofs needs to have the boot record -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot It works! Thank you. Here is another question as I am still trying to reduce the logistics of remotely rebuilding several FreeBSD systems. The 8.0 CDROM uses mfs and opens up some

Re: Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-15 Thread Tim Judd
Replies inline On 1/13/10, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Tim Judd writes: ^^^ mkisofs needs to have the boot record -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot And as another option, you might look at mfsBSD, it runs off mfs (RAM) disks with sshd being enabled by default. Once it

Re: Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Thank you. I will get one of those mfs-enabled 8.0 CD's and have at it. All the boxes we need to upgrade have at least a gig of RAM so this should be the answer. Tim Judd writes: I'm surprised on how far braille has gotten onto computer systems. Yes. I am sory that this is a bit

Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-13 Thread Martin McCormick
I started to use the same strategy that worked in 6.x but it is not working right now. I obtained8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and did: mkdir 8.0serial tar xf 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso This produced a read-write file system that appears sane in that it seems to be large

Re: Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-13 Thread Tim Judd
Replies inserted below On 1/13/10, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: I started to use the same strategy that worked in 6.x but it is not working right now. I obtained8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and did: mkdir 8.0serial tar xf 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

Re: Trying to build 8.0 Headless Installation Disk

2010-01-13 Thread Martin McCormick
Tim Judd writes: ^^^ mkisofs needs to have the boot record -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot And as another option, you might look at mfsBSD, it runs off mfs (RAM) disks with sshd being enabled by default. Once it boots (kernel starts probing), the cd can be ejected. This could be a game