Umm I was wondering if anyone had any info on this?

Poff

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, poff@sixbit.org enslaved 16 hundred monkeys to type:

> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:03:57 +0100 (CET)
> From: poff@sixbit.org
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: How can I edit the packages install on the ISO?
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jeremy C. Reed enslaved 16 hundred monkeys to type:
>
> > As far as I know, there aren't any howtos on building a custom CD for
> > NetBSD. I started writing a guide for this, but it was based on 1.5.x and
> > things have changed in 1.6.
>
> Would be interesting to read!
>
> > I have customized sysinst a few times (for example, for auto-defaults for
> > unattended installs) and have built my own custom CDs many times with my
> > own packages (including live, memory-based CDs).
> >
> > See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html for the Bootable CD
> > ROM How-To.
>
> Thanks, from what I understand I just copy the current-i386 installation
> files (118mb again I think so that's not bad) and then I can make it all
> into an ISO. I can just copy my already-burned iso onto the /cdsources as
> well. In fact, looking at the sets, would it be terrible if I just stuck
> in there compiled version of bash and pico, stuff like that and retarred
> it up as base.tgz? I know the /var/db/pkg stuff would be a bit screwy when
> I come to pkg_install (I don't really understand the db thing anyway)...
>
> Another thing I see is, couldn't I just tar up my compiled kernel which is
> (very) specific for this system and add it as KERN-LITE.tgz in the sets?
> Would I have to add it in "kernel" as well?
>
> Is there any other way to install pksrc apart from adding it as a modified
> set but untarring it into /usr then retarring so the root directory for
> the set is /usr/pkgsrc instead of /pkgsrc? Actually, it doesn't really
> matter, but would I be able to rename the pkgsrc.tar.gz pkgsrc.tgz and
> stick it in sets to be extracted automatically? Is this just *too*
> disgusting to do? I'm new to all this if you hadn't noticed already ;)
>
> Another question, there is a user-ppp project from
> speedtouch.sourceforge.net, again, would I just add the compiled binary
> into base and add a ppp.conf in a ppp directory for etc?
>
> Maybe a better way is to make another set called "poff" or whatever and
> include in that set pkgsrc, syssrc, compiled binaries for ppp, maybe some
> binaries for pico and bash (again I'm unclear about the best way to
> auto-add packages) and then just select it during the installation?? I
> would add a /etc/ppp directory in it too.
>
> One more thing. I downloaded the 1.6 iso a month or so ago - since then
> the x source has been updated with a patch for my video driver. What I
> *did* have to do was install netbsd from my iso without x, then compile x
> from the x sources which took a LONG time. How can I find out if the iso
> has been updated, and if it contains the latest x binaries? I guess the
> new x src is in netbsd-current, and that netbsd-release-1.6 doesn't get
> changed from ... release?
>
> As you can see lots of questions! I think if I can understand the above a
> little better I can wait a while before I ask a whole bunch more...
>
> > Look at the code (mostly the Makefiles) under src/distrib/utils/sysinst/,
> > src/distrib/i386/floppies/ (assuming i386), and the src/etc/Makefile
> > (about building ISO).
>
> I will have a look, but I'm no genius, and will see if there's anything
> useful I can mess about with. I guess I'd have to build into my /cdsources
> from the src?
>
> > Any easy way would by just to build own cdsources/ directory (like
> > described in the Bootable CD ROM HOWTO) that also includes the packages
> > you want in the packages/1.6/i386/All/ directory. Then manually install as
> > normal.
>
> As above, do you mean just add bash-xxx.tgz as a file and once installed
> run pkg_install bash like that? I'd kinda like it integrated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Poff
>
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