How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

Peter Steele psteele at maxiscale.com
Tue Nov 18 07:55:33 PST 2008


>I believe you modify /usr/src/release/${ARCH}/boot_crunch.conf to do
this.
>
>I haven't actually tried though...
>
>I think it would be possible to have a 'GEOM' menu that you can run
prior to fdisk, label, etc that would allow you to
>do some basic stuff like this.
>
>While the sysinstall code is a bit fugly it's not that difficult to
hack on (speaking from limited experience :)

Hmmm. I hadn't planned on actually creating a custom sysinstall but I
guess that's another way we could approach this. I have some research to
do...


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