Creating one's own installer/mfsroot

[Ivan Voras]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:40, Matthew X. Economou wrote:
>> Could anyone recommend a good guide for developing one's own mfsroot
>> images suitable for recovery or scripted installation (not using
>> sysinstall)?  It appears that one could develop a simplified
>> network-based installation process based around fdisk, disklabel,
>> newfs, mount_ufs, fetch, and pax, perhaps tied together with the
>> usual scripting tools (maybe miniperl or sh/sed/awk).
> 
> You could see how make release & FreeSBiE do it.

You could also look at the INSTALL guides for (early versions of?)
Dragonfly, it taught me how to install a BSD system from scratch, using
only what's in base of liveCD :)

(I consider it a bad sign that I've actually needed that knowledge once
to set up a production machine - I thought we're not in the stone age
anymore :( )

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