Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 10:48:08 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writing to ISO-images mounted as vnodes? Message-ID: <20021222184808.7B76223D@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> of "Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:06:46 %2B1100." <20021221220646.GW930@k7.mavetju>
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> > While I was thinking how to make a bootable DOS-CD (the floppies for > > sale now just aren't as reliable as they used to be), Heh, and I thought it was just me... > Did sound nice, just create a 650Mb file, mount it, copy some files > into it, unmount it and ready to burn. The mechanism will work fine, you just need to have an intermediate file that can be mounted R/W as the repository for the files from the CD, then run 'mkisofs' to generate the ISO image from that. Extra step(s), but at least it works... I generally dedicate a disk slice or two for CD mastering purposes, (so the space is available even if I over-commit my filesystems), and mount the partition and check it over before burning from it, but using vn devices works nicely too, if you've got the FS space. Actually, if someone would commit the patch that adds the 'cdrom' flag to 'vnconfig' (for VMWare), you'd be able to check final booting and everything from a VM, so you could perform the entire process without needing to burn a CD except as the very last step. :) Cheers, AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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