Re: Automated Installer - Automated Patcher

[Christopher Maxwell <openbsd@themanor.net>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Erik E Wilson wrote:
> Okay, so I have read the faqs, maybe I am not being descriptive enough...
>
> This is what I have been able to gather, on the CD-Rom ISO are the
> following files:
>
> bsd -> ELF Executable
> bsd.rd -> GZIPed file uncompresses to ELF Executable
> miniroot34.fs -> disk image, after vnconfig and mount files inside are:
>    bsd -> GZIPed file uncompresses to ELF Executable
>    ofwboot -> ELF Executable
>
> bsd.rd and the bsd inside miniroot34.fs are the same file...?
>
> Uncompressed all tar balls on ISO and still no install scripts.

Look in the source tarball, or better yet, get a copy from CVS
http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html

> Is there a way to mount the bsd.rd files to poke around in them?
> I have searched for the answer to this question w/o luck but that
> would make sense if they are just executables inside a gziped file.

src/distrib/<arch>/common/Makefile.inc
has the targets used by the build system to mount the ramdisks
look for the rd_* targets

> I have tried to compile the source tree from a Sparc64 system but get
> several error messages.  Specifically when I try to compile the source
> under src/distrib/sparc64/ I get a DESTDIR error.  This is easily overcome
> by adding to the make command line but several errors still result
> thereafter.

man release

it has all the pointers you need to complete a build.  Then start looking
at the install scripts, they are under src/distrib

cheers

-=chris