mkbootmedia

- create bootable Solaris ISO image

Synopsis

/usr/bin/mkbootmedia -v [-l label] media-root iso

Description

The mkbootmedia utility takes media-root (the root of an on-disk Solaris install media) as input and creates a bootable Solaris ISO image in the file iso, using mkisofs(8). The file can then be burned onto a CD/DVD with utilities such as cdrw(1) or cdrecord(1). (Neither mkisofs(8) nor cdrecord(1) are SunOS man pages.)

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Caution - The directory tree media-root must contain the file boot/grub/stage2_eltorito, which will be written to the media boot sectors. This file will be modified with some boot information, thus it must be writable. If necessary, first save a copy prior to running this utility.

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Options

The following options are supported:

-l label

Sets label as the label/volume name of the ISO image.

-v

Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

media-root

Top-level directory of an on-disk Solaris install media.

iso

Name of the output file which will contain the resulting ISO image.

Examples

Example 1 Creating an ISO Image and Burning a CD/DVD

The following commands create an ISO image from the content of s10u1 and burn the image to a CD/DVD.

# /usr/bin/mkbootmedia s10u1 s10u1.iso
# /usr/bin/cdrw -i s10u1.iso

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

cdrw(1), attributes(5)

mkisofs(8), (/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8), in the SUNWfsman package (not a SunOS man page)