cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/i386 mkisoimages.sh

[John Baldwin]

On 23-Jul-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> ru          2003/07/23 13:53:37 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     release              Makefile 
>     release/i386         mkisoimages.sh 
>   Log:
>   Added the (undocumented) EMUL_BOOT variable (for TARGET=i386 only)
>   that causes the bootable ISO images to be created using the floppy
>   emulation (the old method) as opposed to the new "cdboot" method.
>   
>   Only copy boot.flp to the 2nd CD-ROM if this variable is defined.
>   
>   Reviewed by:    murray

I would always copy the floppy.  The reason is so that all of the needed
bits for both boot types are available to vendors.  I can see vendors
taking the contents of an ISO, mounting it using mdconfig, adding more
bit in another dir, then using mkisofs to generate a new ISO with a
different boot method.  This would be done w/o rolling an entire release
but using the ISO from the Project's release.  In other words, I don't
think we should require vendors to roll an entire release just to use
boot.flp instead of cdboot or vice versa.  Please just leave both cdboot
and boot.flp on both ISOs.

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