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On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > I've been meaning to trial it out actually. It sure would be
> > > interesting to boot a kernel/mfs off of a DOS bootable FAT USB.
> >
> > I think you can do it if you makefs /boot and feed it to syslinux
> > using memdisk (I plan on trying this today).
>
> I used Luigi's iso2flash.sh script (the guts thereof) and it worked
> fine, ie.. mkdir /tmp/boot
> cp -r /boot /tmp/boot
> [ fixup /tmp/boot/boot how you like ]
> makefs -t ffs -o bsize=4096 -o fsize=512 -f 50 /tmp/boot.img
> /tmp/boot bsdlabel -Bw -f /tmp/boot.img auto
> bsdlabel -f /tmp/boot.img | sed -e '/ c:/{p;s/c:/a:/;}' | bsdlabel
> -R -f /tmp/boot.img /dev/stdin gzip /tmp/boot.img
If anyone is interested the attached script will format a USB flash
drive, and create the necessary magic to boot off.
I think this would be a useful addition to the 'make release' stuff -
you can run the script with a install CD directory made by make release
and it will give you a USB stick you can install from (you also need to
copy the dist files :)
I think it would be good to include the image on prebuilt ISOs so you
can then get users to use something like unetbootin in Windows to copy
the ISO bits onto a USB key. It requires an extra 15Mb of space, not
sure if that's a big deal on a CD (should definitely not be on a DVD)
The script needs makefs which is in head but not 7.x (easy to build
there though). It also needs the sysutils/syslinux port installed.
--
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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