From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 15:28:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BA91065674 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:28:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com [208.86.224.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544318FC1B for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:28:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (172-67-237-24.gci.net [24.237.67.172]) by bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B481328E1281; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:27:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD To: michael Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:27:59 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.1; i386; ; ) References: <492E32C5.9070204@gmail.com> <200811270528.03987.beech@freebsd.org> <492EB8E5.8030901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <492EB8E5.8030901@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811270627.59161.beech@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release of current X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:28:00 -0000 On Thursday 27 November 2008 06:12:37 michael wrote: > 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? That pretty much exactly what you would need to do. But I'm sure it could be done. I just don't have any experience making a multi-boot CD. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------