How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

[Nate Eldredge]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Peter Steele wrote:

> I want to make a custom FreeBSD install CD-ROM with additional commands
> available in the mfsroot image. Adding the new commands to the image is
> easy enough, and I've made an install.cfg file on the CD-ROM as well so
> that when the CD runs the commands in install.cfg are automatically
> executed. This all works, except none of the new binaries I add to the
> mfsroot image run during the automated sysinstall session. If I
> reference one of the default commands (the ones stored in /stand) they
> run fine, but if I add a new FreeBSD binary to the /stand directory
> (e.g. gmirror), the command fails.

How does it fail?

Is the binary you added statically linked?

> What's weird is that I can open a fixit shell after the install.cfg
> script fails and then run the same commands interactively and they work
> fine. Why would work these commands work in an interactive fixit shell
> but not during the automated sysinstall session?

Wild guess: the shared libraries are present somewhere else on the CD, 
which perhaps is either not mounted or not pointed to by LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
or similar until the fixit shell is run.

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Nate Eldredge
neldredge at math.ucsd.edu