Peter Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > In my read-only CD-ROM boot case, /var is created as a MFS device > automatically and populated, but a basic directory layout only is > used. Nothing from the CD-ROM /var is copied into the MFS /var > that is created. > > I cannot figure out how BSD can do this automagically, so I'll > have to have a duplicate copy of /var on the CD and populate it > from that. What I've tried that works well is when I'm about to > run mkisofs to create the .iso from, I rename my /var to /var2 and > create an empty /var. When the iso is booted, a default MFS based > /var is created with a specific collection of directories. I have > a startup script that copies my /var2 contents into /var and that > does the trick.
You might be able to reduce the iso size some by making a tarball of /var (using tar -y or tar -z) instead of keeping /var2 as a tree. Granted you would then need to have tar(1) in the iso, which may cancel out much of the savings if you would not otherwise have needed it. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
