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> References: <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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