From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 18:13:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2D316A402 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 18:13:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24E5D13C4AD for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 18:13:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 556 invoked by uid 1006); 3 Apr 2007 17:46:34 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(1.0/100.0):. Processed in 0.927531 secs); 03 Apr 2007 17:46:34 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: * Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.21) by -v with SMTP; 3 Apr 2007 17:46:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 27920 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2007 17:46:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 3 Apr 2007 17:46:32 -0000 Received: from 12.170.206.13 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:46:32 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4342.12.170.206.13.1175622392.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:46:32 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: ISO Image Size Increasing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:13:16 -0000 I have run into a rather weird problem, that I am not sure how to correct. I have created a bootable CD for my FreeBSD systems which is approximately 234 MB in size. While deploying the image, I found an error I would like to correct. All I am doing is adding a symlink to a folder in the /home directory. Please let me know if you see anything flawed in my procedure which may be causing this problem. 1. Create a directory to work in /home/CDImage. 2. Copy the existing image to the /home/CDImage directory. tar -cpf - /cdrom | tar -xpf - 3. Add the necessary symlink. 4. Create the ISO image. /usr/local/bin/mkisofs -allow-leading-dots -l -R -T -iso-level 4 -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -o fwcd.iso CDImage The image copied from the CD is approximately 234 MB in size, and the image created by mkisofs is 664 MB. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jay