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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How did you guys (Jordan) do it?? Date: 10 Aug 1995 19:23:54 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 29 Message-ID: <40dmca$m53@helena.MT.net> References: <DD2syw.Mw3@agora.rdrop.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <DD2syw.Mw3@agora.rdrop.com>, Craig Keenan <sundans@agora.rdrop.com> wrote: >I am curious as to how you guys made the installation disk. It's >obviously a MFS root filesystem, but it has a lot of stuff (files) >present. When I mount the thing up, I just see the kernel file, so I >assume everything is somehow inside? Yep, it's all been stuffed into the kernel by the release tools. >I think this is great, and if you >can divulge the ingenious way of doing this, I plan to make myself a nice >little fixit disk with everything a guy could ever want on it like this. See /usr/src/release/Makefile. Unfortunately, it requires a *LOT* of disk space in order to do things with the current scheme. It would be nice if it were easier, but I don't see an easier way which also doesn't make it extremely hard for the release engineer. See my recent email on the bugs mailing list for a more detailed explanation. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fishing? Send me email, and we'll home #: (406) 443-7063 | setup something.