Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:33:04 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: Zera William Holladay <zholla1@uic.edu> Subject: Re: make for bootable ISOs Message-ID: <200504111933.05822.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200504111034.53683.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0504101157220.23873@icarus.cc.uic.edu> <200504111034.53683.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sunday 10 April 2005 09:04 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:41, Zera William Holladay wrote: > > Hi, I'm attempting to make a bootable ISO for i386 architecture on > > 4.11-STABLE. I am using: > > > > %make buildworld > > %make buildkernel > > %make hierarchy DESTDIR=/... > > %make installworld DESTDIR=/... > > %make installkernel DESTDIR=/... > > > > And then modifying etc so that /dev/acd0a is the root directory. > > > > Is this the correct sequence and are these the correct targets? Since > > this is such a time consuming task, I figured that I would ask for help. > > 4.x uses el-torrito 2.88Mb floppy emulation for booting.. > make release builds an install CD and a live file system disk. > > I made a page with some tips on make release for 4.x if you're interested.. > http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release-2.html It doesn't have to though, it can use cdboot which then has access to the entire CD so that you can use a larger kernel and mfsroot. 5.x and beyond use this by default and 4.x will if you set USE_CDBOOT=yes at 'make release' I think. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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