Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:23:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917132154.24895D-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970917093654.6050A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Atipa wrote: > When we burn a CD-ROM here, the only place it gets nasty is in the > packages section. I can not get our CD burner to respect the symlinks; it > actually copies the file into two places, eg: > > rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin - 18 Sep 15 21:47 /usr/bin/vi@ -> /usr/local/bin/vim > > would actually have two copies of the file, one in /usr/bin and one in > /usr/local/bin in this case. That doubles the amount of room needed for > the packages, and then the image exceeds the 650MB limit. You need to use the 'mkisofs' program, and specify the option to use Rockridge extensions (there are two, you want to use the one that auto-corrects the permissions/groups, etc...) It worked great for me, I even made the CD self booting ;) -- David Cross
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