Subject: Re: boot images
To: None <seebs@plethora.net>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/1999 20:16:28
> How are things like the install CD made?  I have a -current
> system running, and I'd rather just make an install CD image
> than download 150MB from poor ftp.netbsd.org.

Well, you can download them from not-so-poor ftp.ntnu.no ;-)

Seriously, though, attached below you'll find the Makefile and
the various other goo I used when putting together the current
CD-ROM image, and I've unpaked it in /usr/src/distrib/i386/cd-rom.
If you packed out the source tarballs I created from the last
snapshot, it's in there...

Not sure it's in committable shape, though, e.g. it uses an
out-of-tree tool (mkisofs, from pgksrc) to construct the image.

There's probably some more automation that can go into preparing the
inputs to construct this image, and better integration with "make
release" would be a bonus.  Currently I just manually (cough...)
collect all the binary tarballs and images in /usr/release (settable)
and source in /usr/src-rel (also settable) before doing the make.

A snapshot of my current /usr/src/distrib/i386/cd-rom/ build
directory can be found in

	ftp://ftp.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD/local/i386-cd/i386cd-setup.tgz
and
	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/i386cd-setup.tgz

(...once I can get back in and flip the permissions on the file;
my connectivity to ftp.netbsd.org just went away.)

Regards,

- H=E5vard