Re: Building a custom release, not working

[Luke Johannsen]

On Jan 31, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Chad M Stewart wrote:

I'm starting down the road of creating a firewall appliance using 
FreeBSD.  An automated, hands off installation is a key component of 
this.

I have to start somewhere and figured I would start with building my 
own release.  Using that as an exercise to become familiar with how 
the process works and then start to customize the install and 
subsequent image that is put down on the disk.


Thank you,
Chad
I've never tried what you're doing though I've thought about it many 
times so I don't think I'll be much help on the specifics. But during 
one of my many times of searching the web for just such a thing I came 
across this fellows website and seems to be very well documented and up 
to date.
http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html

Also this project may be of some interest to you too.
http://m0n0.ch/wall/
Both are intended to be used with this hardware but also can be 
customized with any regular computer too.
http://www.soekris.com/

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Luke
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Re: Building a custom release, not working

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:06, Chad M Stewart wrote:

 I printed off the FreeBSD Release Engineering document and read through
 it.  I then proceeded to create a local copy of the CVS tree.

And did you checkout /usr/src with that local copy? And did you do a make 
buildworld, to populate /usr/obj with the output of that new tree.

ie:
cd /usr
mv src src.old
cvs -d/home/cms/cvs_root co -r RELENG_4_9 src
cd src
make buildworld
# might be sensible to do, not strictly necessary:
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL
# make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL
# reboot
# make installworld
# mergemaster
cd release
make release options...


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Melvyn

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