Rescue FreeBSD (PowerPC)??

Niels S. Eliasen nse at delfi-konsult.com
Wed Jun 25 07:13:31 UTC 2008


Just a small comment: might be an idea to get the NetBSD guys along..  
same problem applies there!
Don't know about OpenBSD though.....

Den 25/06/2008 kl. 8.52 skrev Peter Grehan:

>> The new "LiveCD" for x86 and amd64 isn't half bad, and feels a lot
>> like the installer disk.
>
>  The reason this isn't being built as part of the pp release  
> process is that it hasn't been determined what the mkisofs switches  
> are to create a bootable hybrid 9660/HFS image and also deal with  
> the hard links that FreeBSD creates without blowing out the size  
> beyond a CD.
>
>  So here's a call to action for ppc hackers: experiment and see if  
> you can work out what the magic incantation is. Start off by  
> looking at the scripts in src/release/powerpc.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.

kind regards

nse

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