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On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > trying to figure out how 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img was made, with > a view to, well, knowing how it's done, so perhaps I could do some > more. > > I've been studying release(7) and src/release/* for a while now, over > a few releases. I've learned a lot, and while there's plenty I've > skimmed over the finer detail, I have some sort of grip on how > floppy, cdrom and dvd ISOs are made, but can't see how the memstick > images were generated. > > Are there some pointers somewhere to the particular recipe used? I'm not sure about _the_ way, but _a_ way is to use makefs to create an image of /boot from the CD/DVD and then use syslinux to make it bootable. See the attached script, you run it like so.. /tmp/makeusb.sh /tmp/7.2-release/R/cdrom/dvd1 /dev/da1 (it will destroy /dev/da1, so be careful :) It requires the sysutils/syslinux port be installed to work. Once it's done copy /tmp/7.2-release/R/cdrom/dvd1/7.2-STABLE to the USB stick. Now you should be able to boot off the stick and install from a DOS device (ie the memory stick). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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