Thank you Paul! > mkisofs ... It is interesting, does the Linux version of mkisofs fit?
> slightly different approach. Very nice! Thanks again. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Paul Wootton < paul-free...@fletchermoorland.co.uk> wrote: > On 09/04/13 10:27, Sergey wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> Is there a way to create custom ISO without buildworld? >> I just want to edit some configs and bsdinstall scripts for silent >> automated install - why need to recompile whole world? >> It will be great if you'll share some useful links about this process. >> >> Thanks. >> > > Hi, > > To create a custom ISO, download the ISO you want to use as your base, use > tar to extract the ISO into a new directory, make the changes you want and > then run "mkisofs -V FreeBSD9 -J -R -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -o > ../freebsd_custom.iso ." from the new directory. > That will create a bootable CD. > > What I did when making a custom install CD for my server (it's 1000s of > miles away in a datacenter) was a slightly different approach. > I created a sparse file (sparse to save on disk space) the exact size of > my server harddrive on my running BSD box, used mdconfig to give me a md > device and pointed VirtualBox at it. Within a VBox session, I did a normal > install (manually created the ZFS filing systems), made all the config > changes I wanted, installed the apps I wanted then shut the VBox session > down. I DD-ed in the md device and piped it to bzip2, creating a bz2 file. > Added the bz2 file to the custom BSD install ISO and modified /etc/rc.local > file to un-bzip the bz2 file, pipe it to mbuffer (so the opperator could > see something was happening) and write the output to the harddrive, popping > the reset line when complete. > When the server restarted, it was configured with all the right user > accounts, ip addresses, nameserver settings etc. > > Just my 2 pence worth... > > Paul > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
