[syslinux] isohybrid question

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:00:00AM -0800, Gert Hulselmans wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've been prompted to look at using isohybrid for the Debian CD images
>> that I'm producing. This looks like a good plan for the i386/amd64
>> images we make, so as to make them bootable from USB by default.
>> However, it's likely to make things slightly more difficult in terms
>> of producing the images themselves: we want to make them available via
>> jigdo as well as via full download of the .iso files directly, so
>> doing post-processing of the images after genisoimage is finished is
>> less than ideal for us.
>>
>> However, as I'm one of the people with commit rights to cdrkit /
>> genisoimage I could probably add support for creating isohybrid-style
>> images directly inside genisoimage. Does that sound like a sensible /
>> reasonable / useful thing to do?
>
>xorriso has implemented isohybrid already:
>http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso_eng.html

Ah, cool. :-) That'll make my life easier in future then.

>You can also read some mails, by searching for 'xorriso' at
>http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/.
>
>Off topic:
>Is Debian still not switching back to cdrtools?

No, not at all. If anything, we're planning to go the other way and
move over to xorriso / libburn etc. instead.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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