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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:34:06 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        $mage <smage@tampabay.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.8 Floppy Drive Broke Making Bootable CDROM
Message-ID:  <20030414093406.GB34407@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <FGEELJKBAGJGPIHBGPAJMEPPCCAA.smage@tampabay.rr.com>
References:  <FGEELJKBAGJGPIHBGPAJMEPPCCAA.smage@tampabay.rr.com>

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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 10:58:22PM -0400, $mage typed:
> I usually like to make boot disks my with kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and
> install via FTP. Is there any way I copy these images to a cdr and boot from
> it or any variance. I usually use fdimage to make my floppies. Anyone know a
> way?

1) install /usr/ports/sysutils/mkisofs
2) create somedirectory with files you want on the cd
3) copy boot.flp to this directory (boot.flp is a 2.88 MB image containing
   both kernel and mfsroot)
4) run "mkisofs -b boot.flp -o mybootcd.iso somedirectory"
5) burn mybootcd.iso to a cdr

> Thanks...
> smage
> 
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