From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 16:26:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5D716A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A680943FCB for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAP0QKhk052355; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:56:21 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Leo Bicknell , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:56:20 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031124022837.GA54284@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <200311241500.12216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20031124150646.GA80718@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <20031124150646.GA80718@ussenterprise.ufp.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311251056.20173.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.1 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:26:28 -0000 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:36, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:00:12PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > make release will make an directory suitable to put on a CD or DVD. It's > > just that if you use a DVD you can fit a lot more packages/distfiles on > > the disk (which make release doesn't do for you anyway). > > Well, what I'm really interested in is the install + live file > system on a single DVD, which is how the DVD's at FreeBSD mall are > advertised (I've never bought one, myself). So, I can build an > install CD, I (think I) can build a live file system CD. How do > you get them both on a DVD, and give the user a boot choice? Good question.. I suggest you buy one from FreeBSDMall and look at how they do it :) (Although be careful not to violate their copyright) Maybe even ask them how they did it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5