Re: svn commit: r253513 - head/release

[Hiroki Sato]

"Teske, Devin" <devin.te...@fisglobal.com> wrote
  in <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FD2BF2@ltcfiswmsgmb21>:

De>
De> On Jul 21, 2013, at 6:39 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
De>
De> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 05:23:34AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
De> >> New Revision: 253513
De> >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/253513
De> >>
De> >> Log:
De> >>  Create memstick images with the '.img' filename extension.
De> >>
De> >>  Requested by:   many
De> >>  [...]
De> >
De> > Is there any work being done to merge the .iso and .img into single,
De> > hybrid bootable image (c.g. Haiku)?  I've asked this question before,
De> > but I cannot recall now what was the outcome if it...
De> >
De>
De> I have been doing this for years @ $work with sysinstall. Since the
De> death of sysinstall, I've been working on the replacement. However,
De> you can download Hybrid ISO/IMG images here:

 It is possible to create a hybrid image of ISO9660 and USB memory
 image because ISO images for sparc64 have a similar structure and we
 can reuse the build procedure.  I have a patch to create such images,
 but there is a concern that recent memory images become >700MB.  Is
 it still useful?

-- Hiroki

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