Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:35:03 -0600 From: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD Images and Bootable CDs Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9905131720230.171281-100000@waimea.cs.unm.edu>
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I have a couple of questions about CD Images for FreeBSD and making bootable CDs. I'm interested in knowing if there are available copies of the images that are used to make the CDs that Walnut Creek ships. I do realize that Walnut Creek is a business. I work for the dept. of Computer Science hear at UNM and would like to be able to give students the option of writing CDs for FreeBSD (since they can get them for about $1.00/per disk). I realize that I can purchase the CDs and make images myself, and I am also willing to do this unless that would be out of line. Ok, that was question number one. Question number two. I'd like to be able to make a CD image of the root partition on a FreeBSD box such that it is a bootable CD so that if the disk were damaged, corrupted or comprimised I could boot the machine with known safe media. I've been looking at the tools like mkhybrid and mkisofs to produce CD images from directories, what I am not sure about is what to use for the bootable image. What I would like is something with a bit more space then a boot floppy. I'm thinking that with a bootable CD with a root file system on it I could have enough tools to bring a machine on line. thoughts? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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