Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

[Bjoern Koenig]

J. Porter Clark wrote:

> I don't have a way to make such an image without using mkisofs.
> Figuring out how to pack the nanobsd image in such a way that
> mkisofs can make an "El Torito" bootable CD from it sounds
> difficult, offhand.  Anybody know how to do this sort of thing?
> Is it even possible?

Yes, of course this is possible. Think of the the FreeBSD installation
images that boot from CD too. I did this already with a custom
distribution, but I don't remember the steps right now. /boot/cdboot is
the boot code that should do this. Take a look at
/usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh.

Björn