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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
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Message-ID: <40dmca$m53@helena.MT.net>
References: <DD2syw.Mw3@agora.rdrop.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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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
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