[syslinux] isohybrid question

Steve McIntyre
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:35:58 -0000

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?

Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at
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