Make Release

Amitabh Kant amitabhkant at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 16:56:13 UTC 2013


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Devin Teske & Rick Miller have a fairly extensive explanation on their
> blogs on how to create your own modified iso's. Search the archives for
> links. Hopefully they can chime in with their respective links.
>
> I the meantime , the following link has somewhat of my own notes for
> creating a custom cd;
> http://www.amitabhkant.com/custom_iso_with_bsdinstall_in_freebsd/
>
> Does not cover all points, but hopefully should give you a starting point.
> My link is only applicable for bsdinstall (9.0  & 9.1) based installers.
>
> Amitabh Kant
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> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> one specific question I have, that I can't find in the handbook...
>> To make a FreeBSD release, that is to build the install images... you
>> build
>> world, and kernel.. then go to /etc/src/release and type make release...
>> after this, the release images show up in /usr/obj/usr/src/release
>>
>> What I WANT to know.. is what shell script  or file can I edit, to modify
>> the install image BEFORE its created... for example say I wanted to add a
>> line to /etc/rc.conf on the memstick.img file that gets created
>>
>> I understand that there may be better ways to accomplish this, but editing
>> /etc/rc.conf is ONLY a example, im trying to find a simple way to create a
>> "slightly" modified install media for my own internal purposes...
>> eg: ssh enabled and the ethernet card set to DHCP, so I can remote
>> install... I am aware of mfsBSD, as well as DruidBSD, however i'm looking
>> for something simple that I can script.
>> any help or thoughts is appreciated
>> --
>>
>> Sam Fourman Jr.
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Sorry for the top posting in my last email.

Amitabh


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