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bootable amd64 installation CD: msg#00015

Subject: bootable amd64 installation CD
What's the procedure now for making a bootable CD containing the installation files for NetBSD/amd64?

I've just built a -current release (from sources CVS updated on 21 June) and found amd64 doesn't have an equivalent file to i386's installation/floppy/boot-big.fs so I can't follow the steps in this URL:

  http://netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html#i386image

I found that build.sh has an iso-image option which solves my immediate problem, but what if I want to make a bootable CD with non-standard stuff on it?

What is the native boot format Manuel mentions in:

  http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-5.0.html

How does it compare to El Torito? Is the difference just that it's able to ignore the 2.88 MB floppy emulation limit?


Ray






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