*BSD News Article 98959


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!europa.clark.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Burning my own FreeBSD-CD using XFree86-3.3
Date: 3 Jul 1997 17:47:41 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
Lines: 32
Message-ID: <5pgojt$e9o@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <5pe3ta$rov$1@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6
X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669
X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F  93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43913

fm@.aut.tu-harburg.de (Frank Meissner) wrote:

>  So please could anybody tell me which command
> to use to burn a FreeBSD-CD on my own. I know about mkisofs, but
> which options to use.

There's /usr/share/examples/worm/.

> Is there any chance to make it bootable?

If by `bootable' you refer to a CD where you can boot the installer
right off the CD, yes.  The recent versions of mkisofs do support this
feature, you need to specify floppies/boot.flp as the boot image.

Making a `generic' bootable CD (where you can boot just the /kernel
file that's present on the ISO9660 image) is more complicated, i'm
currently in the process of making this work.

> I would like to use XFree86-3.3 with this new CD (Matrox Mystique
> purchased yesterday). Any Chance that just copying XFree86-3.3
> binaries to XF8632 Directory will be installable via  sysinstall?

Only by renaming the files to the XF8632 names, since these names are
hardcoded in sysinstall.  Otherwise, you gotta install the XFree86
files manually (which ain't a big deal either).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)