[ipxe-devel] ISO images

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Mon, 2013/12/09 19:30:
> Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Sat, 2013/12/07 10:38:
> > Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> on Sat, 2013/12/07 00:29:
> > > On 27/11/13 11:27, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > > > util/genliso required mkisofs to exist, I've updates it to find
> > > > genisoimage instead if available.
> > > >
> > > > ISO filesystem header supports storing some extra information with no
> > > > additional cost. I've updated the helper scripts to write some verbose
> > > > info.
> > > 
> > > It looks as though we're now duplicating quite a lot of functionality 
> > > between util/geniso and util/genliso.  Would you like to unify these 
> > > scripts, so that we have e.g. a single util/geniso script which accepts 
> > > a "--legacy" option?
> > 
> > Sure will do.
> 
> And here we go. Some things changed:
> 
> * I do use getopts to parse some command options. Makes it easier if number
>   of options (-l specified or not) changes.
> 
> * All variables have brackets now, backticks replaced with $(...).
> 
> * The usage of 'which' did not work for me. (which gives "xxx not
>   found" on standard output here.) Reworked that...
> 
> * For legacy image config is only included in floppy image, not in iso.
> 
> * File names are always in 8.3 notation to make config generation generic.
> 
> * ISO images do contain some extra information. (show with iso-info -i ...)
> 
> Probably I missed some news... Feel free to look at the code. Anything to
> change?

Uh, I broke isohybrid... So here is an updated patch.
-- 
main(a){char*c=/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */"B?IJj;MEH"
"CX:;",b;for(a/*    Chris           get my mail address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*               gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig    */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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