Joerg Sonnenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Simon, Matt, what do you think about making the ISO a multi-session > disk? That would allow simple extensions.
I'm neither Simon nor Matt ;-) but I'd like to express my opinion on this point anyway, if you don't mind. In the past I've been creating the FreeBSD DVD-ROMs for the Lehmanns publishing in Germany. For the past two issues, I have also added the latest DragonFly BSD to the DVD-ROM. Even the dragonfly logo is printed on the cover. :-) It shares the same ISO9660 with FreeBSD and is directly bootable from the menu, thanks to DragonFly's chroot(2) feature of init(8). (To be exact: I added an entry to the FreeBSD beastie menu. When the key is pressed, the FreeBSD kernel is unloaded, the DF kernel is loaded, the kenv flag for the init chroot is set, and the "Fred" boot menu is displayed.) If DragonFly changed its ISO design to a multi-session CD, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to include it with the FreeBSD DVD-ROM anymore, because it cannot be multi-session. That would be a pity, IMHO. Just my point of view. > > DragonFly can't mount ext3 filesystems. > > Linux *can* write UFS with the right options, but I would still be > careful. The best common denomitor might be ext2, which should be > implemented by both. I haven't tried it myself, but I understand that FreeBSD can mount ext3 as ext2 (ignoring the journal feature). That's OK for read-only access, but I don't know what happens if you try to write to it. Best regards Oliver --
