make for bootable ISOs

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:41, Zera William Holladay wrote:
> Hi, I'm attempting to make a bootable ISO for i386 architecture on
> 4.11-STABLE.  I am using:
>
> %make buildworld
> %make buildkernel
> %make hierarchy DESTDIR=/...
> %make installworld DESTDIR=/...
> %make installkernel DESTDIR=/...
>
> And then modifying etc so that /dev/acd0a is the root directory.
>
> Is this the correct sequence and are these the correct targets?  Since
> this is such a time consuming task, I figured that I would ask for help.

4.x uses el-torrito 2.88Mb floppy emulation for booting..
make release builds an install CD and a live file system disk.

I made a page with some tips on make release for 4.x if you're interested..
http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release-2.html

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