From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 10: 6: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.coastsight.com (ns1.coastsight.com [208.46.230.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577F137B43C for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:05:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maillist@coastsight.com) Received: from ns1.coastsight.com ([208.46.230.17]) by ns1.coastsight.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 14spD7-00093X-00; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:05:45 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:05:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom boot cd for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <15076.53182.678774.639251@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay... So, I guess my next question is (after trying everything on that page), how do I make the bootable 2.88M floppy image to burn to the CD? Do I actually need to create a physical floppy disk, or can I just make an image of a disk? Sincerely, Rick Duvall On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Rick Duvall types: > > Could somebody please document, make a FAQ, or something about making a > > custom boot cd for FreeBSD. It is documented on how to make a custom > > bootable floppy with a custom kernel, but not a cd. What if the kernel > > won't fit on a floppy? the bootable cd would be nice. Use mkisofs with > > el-torito to make an image, ftp it over to a winblows box and use the cd > > creating software, or write with cdrecord. > > The handbook now has an entry on creating CDs at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html > >. It doesn't have a lot of detail on creating a bootable CD (I still > haven't done that), but the general idea is that you create an image > of a bootable floppy - except you get to use a 2.88M floppy for the > kernel - and put that in the tree for the CD. You then use the -b flag > of mkisofs to point out where the boot image is in the tree, and it > should do the rest. > > If you do this and find problems, or can provide clarifications, feel > free to let me know and I'll submit them, or do a send-pr on them > yourself. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message