Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:48:40 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: des@des.no (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bootable CDROM creation system Message-ID: <5aa5b3269b31db56aea70fcd38ccbd1a@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86ll5kdokw.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <20050608235221.GA71575@ranger.acns.ab.ca> <86ll5kdokw.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:35 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> writes: >> My company built a tool a few years back for creating a bootable = cdrom >> based on a running host FreeBSD 3/4 system, which promptly got=20 >> shelved and >> forgotten.I recently had to update it for FreeBSD 5 and thought that >> perhaps the community at large could make use it before it gets=20 >> forgotten >> again. > > # cd /usr/src > # make buildworld buildkernel > # mkdir /tmp/cdrom > # make installworld installkernel DESTDIR=3D/tmp/cdrom > # cd /usr/src/etc > # make distribution DESTDIR=3D/tmp/cdrom > # mkisofs -o /tmp/cdrom.iso -r -no-emul-boot -b /tmp/cdrom/boot/cdboot=20= > /tmp/cdrom > # burncd -s max data /tmp/cdrom.iso fixate eject > > did I leave anything out? I think you need to use -b boot/cdboot (i.e. I think it's a relative=20 path to the root of the image) or it won't work and it's --no-emul-boot=20= I believe. -J can be handy for Windoze systems as well. :-P --=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org=
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