ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-08 Thread Knight Tiger
Hi, I am trying to create a custom ISO image of FreeBSD 6.4. The only difference between the release ISO and this custom image is a modified driver (amdsmb.ko). I did not create the new driver. I believe it was backported from a later release. I understand that this is not a backport of the drive

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-08 Thread Jason
I am uncertain as to why the difference with the changes you had made, and the size it returned, however I would suggest following the release engineering process for creating a custom release. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html In doing this process, I am su

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 04:41:24PM -0800, Knight Tiger wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a custom ISO image of FreeBSD 6.4. The only > difference between the release ISO and this custom image is a modified > driver (amdsmb.ko). I did not create the new driver. I believe it was > backported fr

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 14, Message: 12 On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:41:24 -0800 Knight Tiger wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a custom ISO image of FreeBSD 6.4. The only > difference between the release ISO and this custom image is a modified > driver (amdsmb.ko). I did n

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-12 Thread Knight Tiger
Hi, To update all, I followed Roland's suggestion and installed isomaster and just opened the iso file (1GB) and saved it again and it 'magically' shrank to 570 MB. The new ISO was burned and tested on a physical machine and it works fine. Thanks Roland ! I tried Ian's suggestion and copied fro