Rescue FreeBSD (PowerPC)??

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Wed Jun 25 17:15:53 UTC 2008


On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:

>> 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.

One thing that could be tried is to only have those files and
directories needed to make the CD bootable be visible in the
HFS volume. This should avoid the blow-out :-)

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com





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