Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:10:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a bootable disk2 from a make release? Message-ID: <200109151810.UAA83693@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20010915214842.F1466-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au>
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Jarrod Sayers <Jarrod.Sayers@unisa.edu.au> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > The "make release" process already creates a fixit CD tree (disc2). > > To make it bootable (on i386), just copy the "floppies" directory from > > disc1 to disc2, then create the ISO image the same way you did for > > disc1. That's it. > > Thanks, i'll test in a second. If it is the case though, shouldn't the > 'make release' scripts be set up to copy the floppies to the disc2 folder > aswell? or is assumed that you'll grab disc1/floppies/boot.flp when using > mkisofs on disc2? Well, "make release" performs only a small part of the work that's necessary to build the usual CD-ROM set that's sold by WC / BSDi / Windriver / whatever. It was never intended to be a "make everything". I think this is a good thing, because different release builders have different needs and requirements. Actually it's not strictly necessary that disc2 is bootable anyway. You can boot from disc1, then change CDs. Of course, if you just need the disc for emergency work and not for installation at all, a bootable livefs CD is a little bit more convenient (you don't need disc1 in that case at all). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehelp
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