Subject: Re: CD-ROM boot image size?
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/04/2000 02:58:05
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:02:09PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> It looks as if I must pad a boot-image to install it as a boot-image on a
> CD.  Somehow I had assumed that they were already padded.  Hm.
> 
> Is there any danger in tacking on NUL bytes to fill it out to a size that
> mkhybrid will accept?

If you use the boot-big image built from the netbsd-1-5 branch, it should
already be padded, and ready to go as an El Torito image fed to mkisofs.
The last i386 1.5_ALPHA snapshot may not yet have the fixed image, though.

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Frank van der Linden                           fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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