Subject: Creating custom boot LIVECD
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
From: Joe Lim <Joe.Lim@sit.edu.my>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/27/2004 17:55:05
Thank you. 
The transfer rate was around 64 K/s. 

Anyone can instrust me how to build a boot image? I tried one to build a custom one 
with the following steps.. 

dd if=/dev/zero of=customboot.fs count=5760
vnconfig -t floppy288 -v -c /dev/vnd0d customboot.fs
disklabel -rw /dev/vnd0d floppy288
newfs -B le -m 0 -o space -i 204800 -c 80 /dev/rvnd0a floppy288
/usr/mdec/installboot -v -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rvnd0a
mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt
gzip -c -9 /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CUSTOMBOOT/netbsd > /mnt/netbsd
chmod a+x /mnt/netbsd
umount /mnt
vnconfig -u vnd0d
mkisofs -o customboot.iso -b customboot.fs -c boot.catalog -a -l -J -r -L /cdresources

Regards,
Joe Lim



I tried to boot the cd.. but it said no file system found as it tried to mount fd0a as root 
partition... I did not know how to fix it.. 
Please direct me some useful information how to build snapshot or custom boot cd. 
I read on the following URL: 
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/netbsd/livecd-cd.html
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html

Thank you. 

On 27 Jul 2004 at 16:13, Bang Jun-Young wrote:

> Joe Lim wrote:
> > how to get a working boot image for booting it to install latest snapshot or 2.0? or 
> > where can i get a working iso image file?
> 
> Not the latest but nearly latest:
> 
> ftp://ftp.bsdforum.or.kr/pub/netbsd-2-0-200407090000.iso
> 
> It would be appreciated if you would let me know how fast/slow the
> transfer rate was after you downloaded the file.
> 
> Jun-Young
> 
>