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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:12:37 -0500
From:      michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com>
To:        Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make release of current
Message-ID:  <492EB8E5.8030901@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200811270528.03987.beech@freebsd.org>
References:  <492E32C5.9070204@gmail.com> <200811262120.58753.> <492EA433.7060507@gmail.com> <200811270528.03987.beech@freebsd.org>

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Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2008 04:44:19 michael wrote:
>   
>> Beech Rintoul wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 20:40:21 michael wrote:
>>>       
>>>> will make release work for current? i've built a nice working system
>>>> that i would like to be able to install on several identical machines.
>>>>         
>>> Yes, but read all the docs completely there are a number of options you
>>> need, like telling it to use your source tree instead of CVS and if you
>>> want to build packages etc.
>>>
>>> Beech
>>>       
>> Thanks, I've made a release before.. a long while ago in a galaxy far
>> away... I was just wondering if current would work the same.
>> Also, is it possible to make an iso containing a multi release? ie: i386
>> and amd64?
>>     
>
> Technically, but you'd have to burn it to a DVD and figure out how to choose 
> which to boot from. There are people combining all three to a DVD, but I 
> haven't built a release in awhile myself and have never tried making it into a 
> DVD. Burning a -CURRENT release is no problem, just source it from your src 
> tree. It's really no different than burning a regular release. There's no 
> problem burning both iso's the problem will be the boot sector.
>
> Beech
>   
What do you think about using a different loader on the iso, one that 
will allow selection of a specific architecture?



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