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The FreeBSD handbook tells me how to make a release, but not how to 
build an ISO out of it, and I don't really know anything about the 
workings of mkisofs.  Any guidance before I start googling?

Owen Anderson

On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 11:42  PM, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:28:17PM -0400, Owen Anderson wrote:
>
>> OK, so once I've crossbuilt everything, how do I make an ISO for CD
>> booting?  I'm trying to boot a PowerMac G4/400 if it makes any
>> difference.
>
> I believe you want to make release.. and just use something like 
> mkisofs to create
> a disk image.  Since I have a local root partition (internal IDE 
> drive) I just
> followed the NetBSD instructions and put only the kernel on the CD.  
> Check out the
> FreeBSD web site for some generic instructions on how to create an CD.
>
> - alex