On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Sean Bruno <seanbru_at_yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > I noted that we no longer have the disc1.iso in this release. What > should I use to populate a NFS rootfs for netinstalls? > > This was what I had been using(8.2-RELEASE) to populate NFS roots for > netinstalls. This allowed you to boot up into something that was > self-contained. > > The other ISO's seem to have A LOT more stuff with symlinks pointing to > absolute paths all over the f/s. This isn't quite as simple to copy over > to a rootfs to use as a NFS target for booting. It's just a better idea to use the payload tarballs from here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/<uname -m>/<uname -p>/<release>/ e.g. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ as the basis for your system, and probably just run something like make distribution ala mergemaster afterwards and/or use a custom /boot/loader.conf, /etc/... . sysinstall hacked up the system using its custom memory disk with secret sauce binaries and pathing, s.t. it kept most things self-contained to /stand, whereas bsdinstall hacks the system up in different ways -- most of it pointing back to /tmp/bsdinstall_* or similar locations. HTH, -GarrettReceived on Mon Nov 07 2011 - 17:24:01 UTC
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