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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:49:58 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: creating bootable cd for alpha
Message-ID:  <20000213094958.E91242@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000213173929.A15547@yedi.iaf.nl>; from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:39:29PM %2B0100
References:  <20000213173929.A15547@yedi.iaf.nl>

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:39:29PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> What I'm looking is the right magical commands to make such a cd. I assume
> Alpha uses a bootable ufs cd instead of RockRidge.

Not quite -- RockRidge is still useful (especially for Disc 2).  Rather
you do not specify a boot image as you would on the i386.

When I hacked `make release' to support cdbooting on the Alpha, I maked
my ISO images by:

mkisofs -v -a -o alpha-boot.iso -r -d -T /release/R/cdrom/disc1
mkisofs -v -a -o alpha-liveFS.iso -r -d -T /release/R/cdrom/disc2

setcdboot alpha-boot.iso /boot/cdboot
setcdboot alpha-liveFS.iso /boot/cdboot

[ `setcdboot' is in ports/sysutils/setcdboot, and has only been tested on
the Alpha.  If anybody has tried doing the `setcdboot' step on an i386
box I would be interested to hear about it. ]

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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