How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I 
followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick:

http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2

minus the fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs part . I just set up rc.conf to configure 
the ethernet interface with DHCP and load sshd

then I am now creating an iso image with the boot image. So at the root 
of the CD I will have the boot directory containing the kernel subdirectory.

I figured out about the boot image error from mkisofs. I had to copy 
cdboot into the actual boot directory for the image and the path 
specified by the -b option is relative to the root directory of the CD...

So should this work according to you?

Thanks!

Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> On 10/02/2010 11:39 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
>   
>> Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the
>> kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot?
>>
>>     
>
> How exactly are you creating your image?
> The basic directories in a FreeBSD install iso are 'boot' (containing
> the kernel that will be used for the CD boot) and a directory with the
> name of the release e.g. 7.2-RELEASE. If you wish to include packages
> they should be in a 'packages' directory on the root of the CD. If live
> functionality is required (FreeBSD livefs CD) there are more
> directories, essentially resembling the structure of an installed base
> system.
>