How can i make a image with custom configfiles???

Thowie

Hello,
first of all, sorry for my bad English, i can better read than write ;)

My question is, how can i do costum configfiles e.g. /home/pfsense/pfsense/etc/rc and other to a isoimage???

I edit the files in the Develversion in /home/pfsense/pfsense/* and then i use build_iso.sh in the /home/tool/build_tools/.
But after that, the edited files are overriden by the original.

can someone help me…

Thanks for this product it's very cool

Bye
Thomas

MrMoo

Just mount the release ISO and edit the files in place?


mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -af pfSense.iso` /mnt

Thowie

Hi,
sry for this late answer…

To your post, the mounting of the Image dosn't work... :(

I searched in the buildTools and find a variable to make a custom overlay file, i think that is what i searched for... but don't know how i use this... ;(

so i hope anybody can help me...

Thanks...

and SORRY for my bad English ;)

aldo

make up a directory tree of the files you want to edit

EXAMPLE

/etc/version
/usr/local/www/themes/new_theme

tar -cvzf yourthemename.tgz ./*

add the overlay *.tgz to your buiilder script in the overlay variable and run the builder_script that you want.

simple example ask for some more and i am sure i can help here.

maybe when we are finished you could get the guys to add it to the wiki

Gertjan

@MrMoo:

Just mount the release ISO and edit the files in place?
mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -af pfSense.iso` /mnt

Nearly ;)

# # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/obj.pfSense/pfSense.iso -n` /mnt
# ls /mnt
.cshrc                  conf.default            root
.profile                dev                     sbin
.project                dist                    scripts
COPYRIGHT               etc                     tmp
RELENG_1                lib                     trigger_initial_wizard
bin                     libexec                 usr
boot                    mnt                     uzip
boot.catalog            pkg_info.txt            var
cf                      proc
conf                    rescue
# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a   3807702 1588878 1914208    45%    /
devfs               1       1       0   100%    /dev
devfs               1       1       0   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev
/dev/md0        33870   33870       0   100%    /mnt

To unmount, you to know the device 'number' (name).
While a unmount /dev/mdconfig -l will do for the umount part, you have to mdconfig -l to know the actual name of the device, md0 in my case.
Then a mdconfig -d -u 0 will roll everything back to normal.

Nice to mount a ISO like this…. but the real pb is : can we write to the ISO ? - I'm still on that one (the sited option -o no readonly doesn't work :(). I'll be back.

[edit] Back !

Bad news: doing it all by hand :

# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/obj.pfSense/pfSense.iso -o noreadonly
md0
# mount_cd9660 -o rw -s 0 /dev/md0 /mnt
# echo hello > /mnt/etc/test
/mnt/etc/test: Read-only file system.

The -o rw option (not documented for mount_cd9600, but is exists) isn't taken.
The final error message is my last word ….. :-[

Long live [b]custom_overlay

jeroen234

and if you copy it to a normal dir afther mounting ?
umount it
add/chance files
then make a new image

Gertjan

@jeroen234:

and if you copy it to a normal dir afther mounting ?

Well, if we're talking the pfSense ISO, no need to mount it. It's there already after a build_iso.sh.
Just modify the 'source tree', and execute the last couple of commands in this script file by hand.