On 13/02/2011, at 8:45, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> Alternatively, of course, is there any way to use >> isofs instead of ufs for memstick.img? > > Devin Teske's DruidBSD (http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/) uses the same image > for CD, hard disk, or memstick. I don't know the technical details. > (VirtualBox didn't like it, but maybe it's a trivial fix.)
I would guess it uses ISOLinux plus some voodoo hackery the same as various Linux distros which do the same trick. For work I have made a FAT32 USB stick which uses syslinux to load an MFS containing the loader & kernel and sysinstall then reads the install files off FAT32. I did it this way so that people using it could edit the configuration file without needing a BSD box handy. In theory the loader can read off FAT32 so the kernel could go onto the flash drive too, however I couldn't get it to work :( -- 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
