bbiso is a shell script used to build a CD image for a bootable Linux system running entirely in RAM on a PC platform. An example file system image is provided.It is a rewrite and update of Philip Howard's bick-0.8.0 package.
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060128 Vers 1.02 modified args to mount and mkisofs as "-t msdos" and "-publisher" required by newer versions of these. makdedev in cdinit macro replaced by BB_makedev, as some Gnu makedev()'s evaluated to a function instead of a constant. This just allows compile for same end result, versionremains 0.8.0. 040415 Vers 1.01 tidied the documentation and directories a bit. 040221 Vers 1.00. This is a heavily edited PC only derivative of bick-0.8.0 - version 1.00 because, thanks to bick, it seems to work fine. The cdinit stuff is mostly unchanged, but the build script (now called bbiso from buildiso) is much changed. The basic idea is to put stuff (like syslinux and the build script) in more usual places without all the links in the build tree places, for the whole to behave in a more Linux usual way and for all to be installed via a script. Plus of course I keep some earlier mods to buildiso roughly as follows. Some option names have been changed - these are among those the user should be aware of and the current names are all given in USE (the old names no longer work). The possibility of a place on the CD for normal user files was added - these are placed in a directory of the "parent" (see USE) and are simply added to the CD. They acn be anything from documentation to executables to be run from the CD. The possibility of a simple option for the "mkisofs" invocation has been added - an example as seen in the sample config is for file placement sorting. The binaries used during the boot process (e.g. tar) are no longer taken from the system image but from a resource library place. Thus versions may be used in the image which are not compatible with the bbiso script (which has happened for newer versions of tar). And indeed the quite critical USE and INSTALL files have been added.
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