Subject: Re: one stop towards install CDs
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-install
Date: 02/10/2006 09:27:35
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:57:25AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 1) to 3) remain unchanged; the idea here is that the boot floppy
> can be removed from the drive after loading the kernel
> with the ramdisk; Keeping things outside a ramdisk like
> we do on harddisks is left untouched here & now.
This needs to change (sometime).
> Long term, it may make sense to move the Makefile.bootcd to some place
> like src/distrib/common so e.g. i386 and amd64 can share the code,
No, it needs to integrate into etc/Makefile's iso-image target, as well as
the distrib/cdrom framework.
Both of these are shared with all ports, not just i386 and amd64. I don't
see a point in creating another way to build CDs for a single port (or two).
Martin