From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 24 12:29: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E926114C2F for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:28:57 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011059E2@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: Jamie Norwood Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Making a system on CD Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:30:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You're most likely going to have to make a release, that does build the boot floppies and a "live" file system cdrom image. Basically what you are looking for. I have the instructions that someone else had forwarded to me at home. The problem with this, is that you would need close to 2gb of free disk space to pull this off. Since you have stated that you have a small drive, this may be a problem. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug White [SMTP:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 3:39 PM > To: Jamie Norwood > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Making a system on CD > > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jamie Norwood wrote: > > > > > Here is what I would like to do. I would like to put a filesystem of all > the > > unchanging binaries and such on a CD-R disk, that I could boot from > rather > > than the small hard drive the machine has. Is there a guide for doing > this > > anywhere? I would appreciate the help in getting this working! > > Booting CDs is non-trivial since you have to build a boot floppy image to > serve to the BIOS for El Torrito booting. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > 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