FreeBSD 5.2.1 and CD9660_ROOT bootable cdroms

Joe josepha48 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 10 13:39:31 PST 2005


In FreeBSD 4.x I used parts of that to create a cdrom.

In 5.x I now use parts of the freesbie port to create bootable
cdroms.  It uses cdboot.  

Joe

--- "Greiman, John K (Mission Systems)" <John.Greiman at ngc.com>
wrote:

> Using cdroot-1.2.5, I have successfuly created a bootable CD-R
> which contains a full FreeBSD 5.2.1 installation (minimal: 
> base, crypto, and manpages).  The bootable CD-R successfully
> fdisk, disklabel, newfs, and installed on a test system.  The
> cdroot scripts required modifications, as there were issues
> with the FreeBSD 4.X implementation and dependencies:
>  
> 1.  mkisofs
> 2.  mount_mfs
> 3.  MAKEDEV
> 4.  The diskless_mount entry in /etc/rc.conf
>  
> John Greiman
> 



		
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