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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:50:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Bjoern Koenig" <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de>
To: "J. Porter Clark" <jpc@porterclark.com>
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Subject: Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM
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J. Porter Clark wrote:

> I don't have a way to make such an image without using mkisofs.
> Figuring out how to pack the nanobsd image in such a way that
> mkisofs can make an "El Torito" bootable CD from it sounds
> difficult, offhand.  Anybody know how to do this sort of thing?
> Is it even possible?

Yes, of course this is possible. Think of the the FreeBSD installation
images that boot from CD too. I did this already with a custom
distribution, but I don't remember the steps right now. /boot/cdboot is
the boot code that should do this. Take a look at
/usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh.

Björn