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Re: Creating LiveCD from images bigger than normal floppies



In message <87hdf28nhl.fsf%snark.piermont.com@localhost>, "Perry E. Metzger" 
writes:
>
>Marcin Jessa <lists%yazzy.org@localhost> writes:
>> I am trying to create a custom LiveCD from an image bigger than the
>> "normal" size of either a 1200, 1440, or  a  2880  kB floppy, which
>> is stated in man mkisofs , -b flag.
>
>Now that we have boot blocks that directly support booting from CDs
>without the need for a disk image, you don't need to go through such
>shenanigans any more...
>
>.pm
>
Are the instructions at 
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#i386image
still correct (for i386)?

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb





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