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Operating Systems BSD making OpenBSD ISO's for the sparc Post 38731 by xyyz on Thursday 24th of July 2003 01:20:42 PM
Old 07-24-2003
making OpenBSD ISO's for the sparc

i'm lookin to make a sparc 2 an open bsd box.

i know that everyone is encouraged to buy the ISO's, but i rather try before I buy here. this is what i did with FreeBSD, now I buy all their stuff...

i've scoured the net on how to make an ISO, but I can't find a damn thing of use to me.

does anyone know of a good location where i can follow a step-by-step walk through that isn't overly complicated?

or maybe someone wants to tell me what to do?

i've downloaded the entire openbsd 3.3 sparc directory, now i dunno what to do with it.


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i'm still looking... but still finding nothing. i've run across a few examples, but none of them seem to work.

let's start from this one.

the directory layout

openbsd
------->3.3
------->------->sparc
(place all the sparc files you find from say the openbsd ftp site here)

then you run mkisofs to make the iso...?

do any other files need to be included... or any other files put anywhere else...

and what options do i use with mkisofs? i'm trying the following and it keeps failing with the following error:

F:\openbsd3.3>f:\cdrtools\mkisofs -v -r -J -V "OpenBSD3.3" -b cd33.iso -c boot.catalog -o openbsd33sparc.iso openbsd
mkisofs 1.15a12 (i586-pc-cygwin)
Scanning openbsd
Scanning openbsd/3.3
Scanning openbsd/3.3/sparc
/cygdrive/f/cdrtools/mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'cd33.iso' !

the thing is that cd33.iso is exactly where it should be... in /openbsd/3.3/sparc


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alright... a bit of tinkering and i was able to create an ISO... dunno if it works. from the looks it it, it isn't.

this is what i used, the " -c boot.catalog " is what was giving me problems. i dunno why.

mkisofs -l -L -r -J -sparc-boot openbsd/3.3/sparc/cd33.iso -o OpenBSD33.iso -V "OpenBSD_3.3" -v openbsd

i booted on the sparc 2 by issued a "boot cdrom" at the ok prompt.

now i'm having a new problem... it seems that the CD wasn't made right.

i get the following error:

Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open Sun disk lable package
Can't open boot device
 

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GRUB-MKRESCUE(1)                                                   User Commands                                                  GRUB-MKRESCUE(1)

NAME
grub-mkrescue - make a GRUB rescue image SYNOPSIS
grub-mkrescue [OPTION...] [OPTION] SOURCE... DESCRIPTION
Make GRUB CD-ROM, disk, pendrive and floppy bootable image. --compress=no|xz|gz|lzo compress GRUB files [optional] -d, --directory=DIR use images and modules under DIR [default=/usr/lib/grub/<platform>] --fonts=FONTS install FONTS [default=unicode] --install-modules=MODULES install only MODULES and their dependencies [default=all] -k, --pubkey=FILE embed FILE as public key for signature checking --locale-directory=DIR use translations under DIR [default=/usr/share/locale] --locales=LOCALES install only LOCALES [default=all] --modules=MODULES pre-load specified modules MODULES --themes=THEMES install THEMES [default=starfield] -v, --verbose print verbose messages. --arcs-boot enable ARCS (big-endian mips machines, mostly SGI) boot. Disables HFS+, APM, sparc64 and boot as disk image for i386-pc --core-compress=xz|none|auto choose the compression to use for core image --label-bgcolor=COLOR use COLOR for label background --label-color=COLOR use COLOR for label --label-font=FILE use FILE as font for label -o, --output=FILE save output in FILE [required] --product-name=STRING use STRING as product name --product-version=STRING use STRING as product version --rom-directory=DIR save ROM images in DIR [optional] --sparc-boot enable sparc boot. Disables HFS+, APM, ARCS and boot as disk image for i386-pc --xorriso=FILE use FILE as xorriso [optional] -?, --help give this help list --usage give a short usage message -V, --version print program version Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. Generates a bootable CD/USB/floppy image. Arguments other than options to this program are passed to xorriso, and indicate source files, source directories, or any of the mkisofs options listed by the output of `xorriso -as mkisofs -help'. Option -- switches to native xorriso command mode. Mail xorriso support requests to <bug-xorriso@gnu.org>. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
grub-mkimage(1) The full documentation for grub-mkrescue is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-mkrescue programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub-mkrescue should give you access to the complete manual. grub-mkrescue (GRUB) 2.02-2ubuntu8.3 July 2018 GRUB-MKRESCUE(1)
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