Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 19:38:40 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot CDROM Message-ID: <199812081838.TAA17379@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.981208143120.10514F-100000@terra> from "Ron G. Minnich" at Dec 8, 98 02:32:23 pm
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> I built bootable cdrom's for freebsd a year ago, and can't for the life > of me remember how i made them bootable. That is, I can build iso root > images easily, and I know how to use mkisofs, etc. But I can't remember > what i had to do to make a cdrom that was bootable, not just a file > system image. it is some mkisofs option (either inmkisofs 1.10 or 1.11) which tells what to use as a bootable image (which must be a floppy image). I am not sure if it can be larger than 1.44MB, actually that would be nice for some apps, given that now CDR media and CDROM readers cost almost the same as floppies and floppy drives respectively. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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