Brooks Davis wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:59:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:

>>  Brooks Davis wrote:

>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:

>>  >> [...]

>>>>  If I ignore documentation distfiles (will this affect benchmarks in any

>>>> way?), AFAICT the only distribution sets I need are base, proflibs,

>>>> kernels  and (maybe) lib32. Is there a way to get "make release" to do

>>>> just that? I'm  open to other suggestions, of course.

>>> To just create a working image you can just do:

>>> make buildworld

>>> make buildkernel

>>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory installworld

>>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory distribution

>>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory installkernel

>>  This doesn't seem to create the distribution sets I want. It just creates

>>  the hierarchy of files which are eventually going to be on the hard-disk on

>>  the clients. I may be wrong, but it seems that to be able to use sysinstall

>>  to install the clients, I need to create distribution sets like the ones

>>  supplied here:

>>

>>  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/

>

> Ah, I didn't realized you wanted to do that.  If you do want to use sysinstall,

> then you do indeed to use make release.  The various NO* options documented in

> the release(7) manpage and the makefile should be useful here.

Ok, thanks.
> That said, I can't imagine why you'd want sysinstall to be involved in

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> a automated benchmark system.

Incompetence is probably the best answer :-)
> Doing what it does using a hand rolled script is way easier then trying work with it.
Ok, so are you suggesting something like this?:
1. make world, distribution, kernel

2. make any necessary changes to config files

3. cram the result onto a custom mfs (or make it available somewhere)

4. boot using the custom mfs as root device

5. point init_path in loader.conf to my own script which:

  5a. prepares (bsdlabel, newfs etc.) the hard-disk

  5b. mounts the hard-disk and copies the distribution files over

5. reboot

6. install any necessary packages

7. run benchmarks
Erik

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