From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 8 12:46:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07569 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA07445 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA17379; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 19:38:40 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199812081838.TAA17379@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: boot CDROM To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 19:38:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Ron G. Minnich" at Dec 8, 98 02:32:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I built bootable cdrom's for freebsd a year ago, and can't for the life > of me remember how i made them bootable. That is, I can build iso root > images easily, and I know how to use mkisofs, etc. But I can't remember > what i had to do to make a cdrom that was bootable, not just a file > system image. it is some mkisofs option (either inmkisofs 1.10 or 1.11) which tells what to use as a bootable image (which must be a floppy image). I am not sure if it can be larger than 1.44MB, actually that would be nice for some apps, given that now CDR media and CDROM readers cost almost the same as floppies and floppy drives respectively. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message