Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:27:59 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release of current Message-ID: <200811270627.59161.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <492EB8E5.8030901@gmail.com> References: <492E32C5.9070204@gmail.com> <200811270528.03987.beech@freebsd.org> <492EB8E5.8030901@gmail.com>
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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