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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: bootable cd-rom's
In-Reply-To: <199802172146.NAA28274@hub.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Feb 18, 98 08:46:11 am"
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 18:18:45 -0800 (PST)
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Darren Reed writes:
| 
| is it possible, yet, to make an iso9660 cd-rom boot freebsd using autorun ?

Yep sure does, just use -C passed to the kernel.  I made a patch to the
boot blocks so I could put "/kernel -C" in boot.config and mount the
cd as /.  I used mkisofs 11, to master it.  We use this in manufacturing.

Doug A.

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