From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 21 8:39:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB8137B415; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 49D7781D07; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:39:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:39:16 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Jordan Hubbard , 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> References: <3BA9EEED.B7F0A194@mitre.org> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bruce A. Mah [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