Build your own ISO-install-CD?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ewald Jenisch" <a at jenisch.at>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?


>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > The process is long and complex.  You don't want to do it if you can
help
> > it.
> > If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust
me
> > you
> > really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary.
>
> Hi Ted,
>
> I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could
> post your "receipe" here?
>
> >
> > Here is the easy way to fix this.
> >
> > 1) Burn a CD with the new driver
> >
> > 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel
> > sources
> >
> > 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel
> > source location it is supposed to be at
> >
> > 4) Recompile kernel and your in business.
> >
>
> Nice "shortcut-tip"! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to
> the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that
> went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released.
>

No, not really.  Once you get a working network driver you can cvsup
to -current if you want.  But I would not run a production server on that.

Ted