3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jean-Baptiste Boric
a7a79fa1f5 Boot-to-ramdisk image generation scripts
Scripts for generating boot-to-ramdisk images are now available. These
can be used for example to boot from PXE or from a USB stick, as the
ramdisk are self-contained and do not rely on any block devices after
being loaded into RAM.

The image generation framework has also been slightly cleaned up in
order to better accomodate tarball sets bundling in images.

Change-Id: I65a176832bd0d6954b430fa8305f90af0bd606c1
2016-03-21 21:01:20 +01:00
Jean-Baptiste Boric
69eead77ff New image framework generation
The CD now boots directly from the ISO 9660 filesystem instead of using
MBR partitioning with Minix file systems. This saves some space on the
CD and reduces memory requirements by some unknown amount as the root
ramdisk is completely eliminated.

The x86 hard drive image creation is also rewritten in the same
fashion.

The setup is modified to be more NetBSD-like (unpacking sets
tarballs instead of blindly copying the CD contents). Splitting MINIX
into sets is done in another commit due to it being a nightmare to
rebase.

Since MINIX lacks union mounts for now, a bunch of ramdisks are
generated at run-time to make parts of the filesystem writeable for the
CD. This solution isn't ideal, but it's enough for an installation CD.

Change-Id: Icbd9cca4dafebf7b42c345b107a17679a622d5cd
2015-10-10 19:09:35 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
7f99f3a293 Rename tools to releasetools
This is in preparation of NetBSD's tools directory to build tools
for cross compilation.
2012-06-18 10:53:37 +00:00