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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:55:01 -0400
From:      Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: best way to make dvd appear to me a .iso file to the FS
Message-ID:  <524A2B75.3020704@pix.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXn4wVNR47grOOY6bMi%2ByPCuCcENGOnCN7-owLH49EWX2A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/30/13 9:46 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> bhyveload(8) only let's you use .ISO's for install media and I want to make
> it so I can just insert a DVD (/dev/cd0) and bhyve can read it as if it was
> a just a normal file and not a device... short of copying it to the hard
> drive is there any other solution anyone can think of?

Well, you can create a zvol to hold the bootable UFS filesystem,
and just mount the cd-image, and extract the /usr/freebsd-dist/*
tarfiles directly into the freshly created filesystem...

-Kurt





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