[haiku-development] Re: Downloading gcc?
- From: Paul Davey <plmdvy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:24:28 +1300
>> It contains the proper bits to look like an ISO image to the BIOS
>> allowing it to be burned to a CD (note, however, that it actually
>> includes a BFS disk image for the OS, not ISO + overlay like the real
>> ISO type image), but it also contains an MBR to look like a hard disk
>> image (and thus, can be dd'd to an HD or USB stick and the BIOS will
>> boot it just fine).
>
> Ah -- I (sorta) understand... I wasn't really aware of the complexities
> of ISO9660 (and I'm still not sure how a BFS image is accessed through
> ISO). I see that Wikipedia has pages on 'ISO image' etc., though, which
> help a bit.
>
It isn't, the ISO part only contains a bootloader to mount the other
part of the disk as a BFS partition for booting.
Also though mount can mount the image, you cannot install over a
running system due to memory mapped files.
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