Re: Bootable USB images

2010-01-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ferenc Wagner dixit: In case it's not widely known, let me quote isolinux.doc: Starting in version 3.72, ISOLINUX supports a hybrid mode which can be booted from either CD-ROM or from a device which BIOS considers a hard disk or ZIP disk, e.g. a USB key or similar. That’s one of the methods;

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2010-01-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aurelien Jarno aurel...@aurel32.net writes: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (=

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here as PDFs, they’re

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-30 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here as PDFs, they’re “freeware”) however specifies that the first 32 KiB of an ISO 9660

Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here as PDFs, they’re “freeware”) however specifies that the first 32 KiB of an ISO 9660 filesystem image are empty and available for, for example, bootloaders.

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: This takes advantage of the new infrastructure for bootable image generation (grub-mkrescue), which abstracts the architecture-specific GRUB setup so that you only need to worry about your grub.cfg and not about image building.