Colin Percival wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > >> Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> >>> Checked release building scripts and found that there is some >>> conditional code already which uses vn(4) on older system and md(4) >>> on newer ones. Will try now to see if I can get it working. >> >> >> Didn't jkh point us at a utility that allows the generation of an image >> without requiring any media? >> >> Or was it someone else? > > > You're probably thinking of my ports/sysutils/makefs (borrowed > shamelessly > from NetBSD). Given a directory tree and some options (size of disk > image, > number of inodes, UFS1 vs. UFS2, etc.) it will create a UFS image. > > I use it in my depenguinator to install FreeBSD onto remote linux > systems. > (Extract the release tarballs into a staging directory, add some magic, > build a UFS2 image, dd the image to the hard drive, and reboot.) yep that's it.. we REALLY should use this in the release. I though t I saw jhb using it in a p4 tree at one time (but I may have been dreaming). does it work for machines other than i386 (e.g. machines with big-endian UFS)? > > > Colin PercivalReceived on Wed Dec 29 2004 - 21:05:23 UTC
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