From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 14 15:40:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A48737B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@midget.dons.net.au [203.31.81.7]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f4EMeBN89645; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:10:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200105140810.BAA26975@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:40:08 -0500 (PET) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Dave Hayes Subject: RE: Mkisofs and ISO images that boot Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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