Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:40:08 -0500 (PET) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mkisofs and ISO images that boot Message-ID: <XFMail.20010514174008.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200105140810.BAA26975@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>
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On 14-May-2001 Dave Hayes wrote: > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 149504 May 8 17:00 cdboot* > > Ah! Just what I need, right? So... > > $ cd /random/place > $ mkisofs -U -R -o FirstCD.iso -b boot/cdboot FirstCD > ... > Size of boot image is 292 sectors -> mkisofs: Error - boot image > 'FirstCD/boot/cdboot' is not the an allowable size. You need a boot floppy image (1.44 or 2.88 meg) and you feed that to mkisofs. make release creates one of these I don't think make buildworld does. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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