Subject: Boot from CD-ROM
To: None <junkmail@pht.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/11/1995 09:35:45
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 16:55:31 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Brad Midgley <junkmail@pht.com>

[ Dreaming of a NetBSD CDROM... ]

> Another issue... can/will NetBSD support "fat" binaries like NeXTStep 
> does (one binary which contains forks with code for different CPU types)?  
> That would make a platform-independent installation cdrom and "live" 
> filesystem on cdrom a much simpler and more effective way to get NetBSD 
> some great positive exposure.
> 
> brad
> brad@pht.com

Another way to make a multi-architecture CDROM is to just put each
architecture in a separate top-level directory and use a loopback
mount to make the appropriate one appear as root at runtime.
This lets the entire CDROM use the standard iso9660 format.

Gordon Ross