From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Building a Plan 9 CD Image
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:34:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41CC28E5.4030307@sitetronics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041224143227.GA18698@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
Heiko Dudzus wrote:
> Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm getting into work with the VESA code, and it'd be nice if, in the
>>next couple of weeks, I'd be able to provide CD images (in ISO format, I
>>suppose) for people to download and test out. I thought the release
>>target in /sys/src/mkfile might have that functionality, but it doesn't
>>appear to. Has anybody done this before; would you kind folks at Bell
>>Labs be able to tell us how you are generating ISO snapshots?
>
>
> I think you could do:
>
> disk/mk9660 -9cj -b bootdisk.img -p /sys/lib/sysconfig/proto/portproto -s / image.iso
>
> I am not sure, if they do not use another protofile in fact. However,
> it comes down to use mk9660(8) with a suitable proto file. (And
> portproto looks as a good point to start)
>
> The bootdisk.img has to be listed in the proto file.
>
> You get an image of a bootdisk with disk/format (as described in prep(8))
Wow, support on Christmas Eve! I'm impressed :)
Thanks Heiko and Tiit for the help. I think I can figure it out from here.
Kind regards,
Devon H. O'Dell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-24 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-24 13:59 Devon H. O'Dell
2004-12-24 14:23 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-12-24 14:32 ` Heiko Dudzus
2004-12-24 14:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2004-12-24 15:23 ` Russ Cox
2004-12-25 17:49 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-12-25 19:36 ` Heiko Dudzus
2004-12-25 19:58 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-12-25 20:53 ` Heiko Dudzus
2004-12-25 20:55 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-12-25 20:58 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-12-25 21:17 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-12-25 22:01 ` Tiit Lankots
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