Do we need split media CDs for F12?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:31 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> Also, I want to look a bit more at isohybrid to see if we can  
>>> build iso
>>> images that can just be dd'd, at least for the case of
>>> boot.iso/netinst.iso
>>
>> Can you tell me more about isohybrid, or link to a project page?   
>> Google
>> wasn't exactly helpful.
>
> It's a new feature of syslinux which modifies a mkisofs-generated
> bootable ISO (which uses isolinux), such that it also adds a syslinux
> boot record. The resulting .iso file can be burned to a CD and booted,
> or written straight to a USB key (dd if=...) and booted.

The trick is that it uses some of the same metadata space that we use  
for our CD checksums.  Hence, need to spend a little bit of time to  
see if either a) we can get both to work or b) figure out a different  
way to handle the checksums

Jeremy