Custom release ISO questions.

Frank Leonhardt frank2 at fjl.co.uk
Wed Sep 4 14:07:58 UTC 2013


On 04/09/2013 13:17, Paul Wootton 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.

(Found in ports/sysutuls/cdrtools)

>
> 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. <snip>

Boggle!



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