Re: make own freebsd distro

2005-08-26 Thread John Oxley
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:49:14AM -0700, Damon Blom wrote: Hi I have a current-freebsd 7.0 amd64 system on my Presario 3000. Is there any way I can make a freebsd distro cd (disk 1 and disk2 ) of my system so I can easily put it on other presarios or easily reinstall it back on my

Re: make own freebsd distro

2005-08-26 Thread Damon Blom
On Friday 26 August 2005 03:58 am, you wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:49:14AM -0700, Damon Blom wrote: Hi I have a current-freebsd 7.0 amd64 system on my Presario 3000. Is there any way I can make a freebsd distro cd (disk 1 and disk2 ) of my system so I can easily put it on other

make own freebsd distro

2005-08-25 Thread Damon Blom
Hi I have a current-freebsd 7.0 amd64 system on my Presario 3000. Is there any way I can make a freebsd distro cd (disk 1 and disk2 ) of my system so I can easily put it on other presarios or easily reinstall it back on my notebook after disk crash? Thank's Damon

Re: make own freebsd distro

2005-08-25 Thread iv gan
Try man sysinstall. You can easily script the sysinstall and create an install.cfg and personalize the installation including packages, config files, users to add, etc. It is a bit tricky but it is enough powerfll for your needs I think so. So first try a mfsroot file. Then mount it on your

Re: make own freebsd distro

2005-08-25 Thread Paul T. Root
Way back in the, I'd have to guess, 2.2.8 days. I made my own distro on CD, for my multiple desktops. It was a boot floppy (I think I had the CD boot) and a script to partition, newfs, etc. the disk, and then do a restore from the dumps I made of the template machine. Then the script went