Re: Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 12/29/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:50:21 -0800
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>

    Julian Elischer wrote:
    > Maxim Sobolev wrote:
    >> Checked release building scripts and found that there is some
    >> conditional code already which uses vn(4) on older system and md(4) on
    >> newer ones. Will try now to see if I can get it working.
    >
    > Didn't jkh point us at a utility that allows the generation of an image
    > without requiring any media?
    >
    > Or was it someone else?

    You're probably thinking of my ports/sysutils/makefs (borrowed shamelessly
    from NetBSD). Given a directory tree and some options (size of disk image,
    number of inodes, UFS1 vs. UFS2, etc.) it will create a UFS image.

    I use it in my depenguinator to install FreeBSD onto remote linux systems.
    (Extract the release tarballs into a staging directory, add some magic,
    build a UFS2 image, dd the image to the hard drive, and reboot.)

    Colin Percival
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