From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 24 09:41:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11027 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:41:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10994 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from olvaldi.ifi.uio.no (2602@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.43]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id SAA10747; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:39:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by olvaldi.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:39:48 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: craig@cse.fau.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iso images References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 24 Jul 1998 18:39:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com's message of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:20:42 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA11008 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sbabkin@dcn.att.com writes: > > Yep, I use that right now but I wish they were already .iso files. > > Just for convenience I guess. > I've tried to map the image created by mkisofs to /dev/vn* and mount > it. It worked. Or do you mean something different ? I think he means that some kind soul should take it upon {him,her}self to build an ISO image of the distribution and make it available on an FTP site so people can burn it directly without having to build the image themselves. DES (who thinks it's a good idea) -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message