Subject: Re: one stop towards install CDs
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 02/10/2006 15:48:26
On Feb 10, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>> One question to get forward: I understand how to create a CD from  
>> a single directory. With mkisofs, I can add additional directories  
>> that will get added to the CD, too. Is there something like that  
>> for makefs?
>>
>> The idea is to add $RELEASEDIR to the CD easily...
>
> After looking at the makefs(8) manpage, it seems that's a missing  
> feature.
> What we need is
>
> 	makefs ... image-file directory1 directory2
>
> so we can make directory1 to contain our kernel (w/ ramdisk), and  
> directory2=$RELEASEDIR.

Any reason why we still bother with the kernel+ramdisk?  Maybe it  
would be better to have kernel + cd9660 + compressed-vnd-image instead?

>
> Who can hack this into makefs? David? Frank?
>
>
>  - Hubert

-- thorpej