From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 11:45:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA14513 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14494 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.213]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA05360 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:33:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00401; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:32:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:32:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: xxx cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create my own CD-ROM instalation version. In-Reply-To: <33303BB8.3BBB@free.polbox.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, xxx wrote: > I have downloaded the newest release of FreeBSD (2.2) to my hard disk > and now I'd like to create my CD install disk from it (something like > distribution of Walnut Creek), coz I wish to have the instalation > version on some safe media. Are there some troubles with making CD from > this distribution? I saw there are some longname files, and I know that > the distribution need to be written on CD in ISO9660 format. Assuming you have a supported CD burner, you could do this. > - How to cut these names? The FreeBSD mkisofs command preserves the long filenames using Rock Ridge extensions (00_TRANS.TBL). I don't think you cando this very easily with OSs that don't recognize the long names. > Some distribution files have right short names (i.e. bin.af). > - Are the files with long names realy required? > In PACKAGES directory all files have long complicated names (i.e. > pine-3.95q.tgz) Yes. The packages will not work otherwise. > - How to solve this problem on CD-ROM? > On my some previous CD (but not created by myself) with FreeBSD names > are short (8+3) and there is also (in each directory) file 00table.* > (or 00index.tbl or something like this) where all files has listed the > short name on CD and the equal correct long name. This is done automatically. > - How do these files work? > - If I create this file in my directory, do it be working? > > Please send me informations how to create these CDs (the directory > stucture and some index sample files would be welcome)on one of my > email addresses: See /usr/share/examples/worm for scripts and instructions for doing this under FreeBSD. Of course you'll need a support CD writer. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major