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    The notes below come from my own notes used during the creation of MIDS

    Whilst it's possible that there are mistakes here, this script was followed by Merritt Krakowitzer of South Africa recently and he kindly returned some feedback (well, mistakes) that I had left here. I've corrected them now. Apologies.

    If you are about to undertake this to put a static IP address in, rather than use DNS, I'd strongly advise you to think again.
    Static addressing will always catch you out in the end and be more hard work than is necessary. Setting up a simple DNS/DHCP system is going to be quicker and easier than recompiling this system from scratch, I promise!

  • First follow the instructions on G4U to compile a G4U... This stage is essential and cannot be bypassed.
  • Modify /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk-g4u/dot.profile to make MIDS download it's stuff when it boots:
    Place the following at the bottom: 
    # everything below is Robs Mods
echo "Welcome to MIDS 1.0"

mount -t mfs -o nosuid,-s=5m swap /tmp

HOST='mids'
USER='anonymous'
PASSWD='bogus@email'
FILE='autoexec.sh'

ftp -n $HOST > /tmp/ftp.worked 2> /tmp/ftp.failed <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd mids
cd 1.0
get $FILE
quit
END_SCRIPT
chmod +x autoexec.sh

autoexec.sh

# end robs mods
  • Edit /usr/src/distrib/common/mtree.common to add in the following lines:
    ./libexec
./lib
./usr/lib
./usr/libexec
    Make sure you add them in a logical order in the correct place in the list. The parent direrctory must come higher. (e.g. do not put /usr/lib higher than /usr)

  • Finally, you can re-compile to generate a MIDS iso, rather then a G4U iso:
    Tidy up from the previous compile 
    cd /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/g4u
make clean
    Then do it again
    $T/nbmake-i386
    Run

    When you boot your MIDS disk, it downloads as much as possible from the MIDS server via FTP This is to avoid the need to re-compile when needs change.

    Good luck!
    • MIDS is by Rob Bennett, 2005