Re: New ISO builder

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

I got
"make release"
'release' is up to date  [never built release before... I think I 
forgot some
environment variables :)]

then "make clean"
told me I needed mkisofs.

I assume this is not the intended behavior?

Dave
On Dec 1, 2003, at 4:11 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     I have put together a new ISO builder in /usr/src/nrelease.  It 
> will
>     create a bootable ISO image on a CD which is basically a full, live
>     filesystem.
>
>     No sysinstall is generated (yet).  A writable /dev, /tmp, /var, 
> and /etc
>     is created via MFS, so basically the entire system should work 
> booted
>     off of CD.  The CD will boot into a login prompt.  Since root has 
> no
>     password, just login as root.
>
>     I'm hoping this can form the basis for the single-CD idea that I've
>     been batting around.
>
>     There are currently two make targets in /usr/src/nrelease:
>
>     release:	This will do a full buildworld and buildkernel (GENERIC)
> 		with the current source tree, then generate the release
> 		ISO and directory structure in /usr/release.
>
>     quickrel:	This will do a 'quick' buildworld and buildkernel (i.e.
> 		-DNOCLEAN) and then generate the release ISO and directory
> 		structure in /usr/release.
>
>     realquickrel: This is even faster.  It assumes that the 
> buildkernel and
> 		buildworld have already been done and just generates the ISO
> 		directory structure and ISO file in /usr/release.
>
>     You need to have several Gigs of free space in /usr, not counting
>     space used by buildworld and buildkernel.  Be sure to do a complete
>     update of your CVS tree and sources before running these targets.
>
>     The ISO file defaults to /usr/release/dfly.iso.  My first ISO is
>     available for download on the main site in the download section.
>     See:
>
> 	http://www.dragonflybsd.org/Main/download.cgi
>
>     --
>
>     The ISO contains a complete base distribution plus installed 
> binaries
>     for two ports: cvsup and mkisofs.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>