Bootonly CDROM utilities

Mike B meb at cinci.rr.com
Sat Feb 28 09:27:47 PST 2004


Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> If we're going to have a bootable CD-R in the distribution, it might be 
> useful/handy to have ancilliary utilities on that disc, to do partition 
> mangling (etc) as well.   There's plenty of space now, at least.  ;-)

You might want to check out freesbie in the ports. It allows you to 
build and manipulate a mock FS before it gets packed with mkisofs. In my 
experience most of the scripts did work for creating the live fs but I 
had to manually copy the rc.live file from the freesbie dir to the 
livecd dir.

Mike



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