git: 1af48800c20f - main - Delete memstick images for PowerPC.
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 24 03:20:28 UTC 2021
The branch main has been updated by nwhitehorn:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=1af48800c20fadb07acca2ab930bb3bccd363edb
commit 1af48800c20fadb07acca2ab930bb3bccd363edb
Author: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-02-24 03:17:20 +0000
Commit: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-02-24 03:17:20 +0000
Delete memstick images for PowerPC.
These images only ever worked on Apple Powermacs, which are now a very
old platform, and did so only for a very loose definition of "worked"
(they booted on a small subset of supported machines). Moreover, all
the machines they *did* boot on also would boot from a memstick made
by dd'ing an CD image to a flash drive. Since a flash drive prepared
in this way would also boot all the newer systems we support, the
memstick images were strictly less functional than the CD images, even
for booting from memory sticks.
Reviewed by: jhibbits
MFC after: 1 week
---
release/powerpc/make-memstick.sh | 50 ----------------------------------------
1 file changed, 50 deletions(-)
diff --git a/release/powerpc/make-memstick.sh b/release/powerpc/make-memstick.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 75a86a73e206..000000000000
--- a/release/powerpc/make-memstick.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# This script generates a "memstick image" (image that can be copied to a
-# USB memory stick) from a directory tree. Note that the script does not
-# clean up after itself very well for error conditions on purpose so the
-# problem can be diagnosed (full filesystem most likely but ...).
-#
-# Usage: make-memstick.sh <directory tree> <image filename>
-#
-# $FreeBSD$
-#
-
-set -e
-
-PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
-export PATH
-
-BLOCKSIZE=10240
-
-if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
- echo "make-memstick.sh /path/to/directory /path/to/image/file"
- exit 1
-fi
-
-tempfile="${2}.$$"
-
-if [ ! -d ${1} ]; then
- echo "${1} must be a directory"
- exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ -e ${2} ]; then
- echo "won't overwrite ${2}"
- exit 1
-fi
-
-echo '/dev/da0s3 / ufs ro,noatime 1 1' > ${1}/etc/fstab
-echo 'root_rw_mount="NO"' > ${1}/etc/rc.conf.local
-rm -f ${tempfile}
-makefs -B big -o version=2 ${tempfile} ${1}
-rm ${1}/etc/fstab
-rm ${1}/etc/rc.conf.local
-
-mkimg -s apm \
- -p freebsd-boot:=${1}/boot/boot1.hfs \
- -p freebsd-ufs/FreeBSD_Install:=${tempfile} \
- -o ${2}
-
-rm -f ${tempfile}
-
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