Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/i386/floppies
To: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/11/2005 05:32:27
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, David Young wrote:
>> mount programs) when we can easily create ISOs, and then go for three
>> floppies as Perry suggested at the same time.
>>
>> Going 3-floppy right now is not an option as long as our ISO creation
>> groks 2.88MB floppie max.
>
> We have the host tools we need to create i386-bootable ISOs with
> arbitrary-sized floppies.  I use a command sort of like this:
>
> $TOOLDIR/bin/nbmakefs -x -F metalog -N $INSTDIR/etc -t cd9660 \
>    -o "rockridge,bootimage=i386;$DESTDIR/usr/mdec/cdboot,no-emul-boot" \
>    netbsd.iso $INSTDIR
>
> Adapting distrib/cdrom/Makefile to use nbmakefs is left as an exercise
> for the reader.

see "_easily_ create ISOs".
Also, src/etc/Makefile's iso-image target probably should be adjusted - or 
one of the two be nuked, I don't really care.


  - Hubert