Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:39:16 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, kris@obsecurity.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jandrese@mitre.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO? Message-ID: <20010921103916.A97903@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200109211518.f8LFITg54534@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:18:29AM -0700 References: <3BA9EEED.B7F0A194@mitre.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109202158410.14211-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <20010920223730.A82191@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010920234553S.jkh@freebsd.org> <200109211448.f8LEmfd54113@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <20010921095056.M61456@elvis.mu.org> <200109211518.f8LFITg54534@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>
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* Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> [010921 10:18] wrote: > If memory serves me right, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > I don't know, missing the tool to make disk images from DOS is > > a pretty bad thing IMO, any way to get this fixed? > > I can't think of any way to do this besides re-rolling the ISO images. > > Note that people buying the physical CDROMs might not see this problem > at all...this is why I wrote "generated by the FreeBSD Project" in the > proposed errata entry. If the release engineers for the various vendors > making CDROM/DVD distributions are following along, hopefully they'll > avoid making the same mistake. > > Note that the set of people affected is going to be "people who can't do > anonymous FTP, don't have bootable CDROMs, and *only* have the ISO > images to work with". I don't know for sure, but I'd expect this set to > be pretty small...if they don't have Internet access, how'd they get the > ISO images? Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the files then rerun mkisofs? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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