Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/makefs

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> Is this enough to replace mkisofs when building macppc releases?
> Or are there more hfs/hybrid things missing?

FreeBSD seems to have HFS image file:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/powerpc/hfs-boot.bz2.uu
so I'm afraid we still needs some tool to create HFS which has
at least one file for complete builds.
(for OF2 machines I think we also need some installboot support btw)

> I tend to like the sunlabel(8) approach better (a manipulation that neither
> fits fdisk nor makefs) - but I don't understand the macppc side to know if
> this is realy similar.

On creating HDD images, size of the image is first,
partitioning is next, and creating file system at last.
So we can use fdisk/pdisk first.

On creating CD/DVD images, a boot file (or image) is first,
creating ISO9660 is next (it includes absolute block numbers?),
then filling MD partition map as a part of boot file of the whole image.

It looks mandatory to make makefs(8) handle partition maps for CD images.
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Izumi Tsutsui