Subject: Re: building a bootable 'install' cd
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/19/2002 09:19:07
>
> I'm getting ready to install 1.6 and/or its betas.  Given the set of
> machines I want to install it on, the easiest and most reliable way is
> for me to burn a CD with all of the installation stuff.  It would be
> especially nice on my laptop for the CD to be bootable.  How do I
> prepare one of those?  More specifically, what options and what files
> do I pass to mkisofs to create the proper image?
>

man mkisofs - b option, and add bootable diskette image as parameter (this
2.88MB as no disk swapping is possible)

> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
> 		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)
>
>

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