Subject: Re: send your use-cases for makefs -t cd9660 !
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/01/2004 17:25:08
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:38:10PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> I am mentoring a senior project group at UIUC.edu that is programming a
> 'cd9660' target for makefs(8).  I have described for them one use-case,
> which is privilegelessly building a bootable, "live" CD-ROM image
> for x86.  If you have additional use-cases, won't you send them to me?
> Use-cases that are very obvious to you, I have probably not thought of.

I'd say build a CD-ROM image that can boot on a whole lot of=20
architectures. Look at src/distrib/cdrom and how it calls mkisofs. I'm not=
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sure how much of it they'd already be supporting, and how much would mean=
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new features.

Take care,

Bill

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