Subject: Re: UPDATE: various changes on INSTALL and iso generation
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 03/05/2007 18:31:21
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:59:11PM +0100, Juan RP wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:49:00 +0100
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > here's an updated patch for my changes on iso generation. Changes
> > since last one:
> > - the "install" iso are genereated in $RELEASEDIR/iso instead of the
> >   per-port directory. If all ports are built using the same
> > $RELEASEDIR it should end up with a tree that can be uploaded to the
> > ftp server as-is.
> > - almost all ports have been converted. The remaining port not there
> >   is mac68k because, if I got it right, it still depends
> >   on features that we don't have in our cd9660 makefs.
> > 
> > I have a build for all ports running, which should complete tonight.
> > if all goes well I should be able to commit this in about 24h ...
> > 
> > Remaining issues:
> > - enable back iso-image in etc/, only for macppc and mac68k
> > - teach distrib/cdrom about non-emulated boot for x86 (but I consider
> > this a separate issue for now).
> > 
> > ftp://asim.lip6.fr/outgoing/bouyer/install_cdrom.diff
> 
> Wow... good work! Does that mean that we can choose what install kernel
> we want? and no more restrictions about floppy size?

For i386 and amd64, yes. That was the goal :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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