Re: Creating LiveCD from images bigger than normal floppies

[Marcin Jessa <lists%yazzy.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:06:01 -0400
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:

> 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)?

Yes, now you can use both ways.
I put a simple howto describing both of them for i386 on:
http://www.yazzy.org/docs/NetBSD/netbsd-livecd.txt