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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:25:05 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Petr Holub <hopet@ics.muni.cz>, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic on boot
Message-ID:  <20071010112505.GA28273@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <86641fgrs6.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <031f01c809ef$c829de80$5317fb93@KLOBOUCEK> <86641fgrs6.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> writes:
> > Despite you couldn't guarantee it, it really helped and it boots now.
> > I've used the binary loader available from ~kib site and just replaced
> > it on the original ISO: mdcondifig -> mount ->
> > tar cf - | (cd elswhere && tar xvpf -) -> replace the loader -> mkisomages.sh
> 
> You realize that you can simply 'tar xf' an ISO image, instead of
> jumping through hoops with mdconfig?

Most FreeBSD users I know of (junior and senior) do not know about
libarchive(3), nor what's linked to it (tar).  Heck, even *I* didn't
know it had ISO9660 and ZIP support until I read the manpage; I thought
it was limited to tar, pax, and cpio archives.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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