Subject: Re: making a bootable CD?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/13/2006 21:59:38
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> * make an ISO image with mkisofs that has the 3.0/sparc release
> (in a "sparc" directory); no bootloader, no kernel ("netbsd")
> nothing else in the ISO
> * sh 3.0's src/distrib/common/sunbootcd.sh my.iso boot.fs boot.fs boot.fs,
> where boot.fs is an uncompressed version of ftp.NetBSD.org's
> /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/sparc/installation/bootfs/boot.fs.gz
> no SUNLABEL variable was set, and the system's native version of
> that tool was (probably) used.
Using a 'sunlabel' program that was built by "build.sh -m sparc tools" did
the job, where a native 3.0/i386 sunlabel program didn't work. (What for
do we have that program on i386???)
- Hubert