From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 21:37:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0545016A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:37:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B24743FF3 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAO5bKhk035134; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:07:20 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Bruce M Simpson , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:07:19 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031124022837.GA54284@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20031124025418.GC669@saboteur.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20031124025418.GC669@saboteur.dek.spc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311241607.19437.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 05:37:26 -0000 On Monday 24 November 2003 13:24, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > I'm intrigued by this. Is it possible to build DVDs which will boot on > i386 and/or a variety of architectures? FAQ pointers welcome... I haven't seen one, but I assume the BIOS just reads the ISO9660 FS and does an El Torrito boot as per a CD. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5