I would like to add few notes:

- this is something that replaces the hand-made method used previously for the special Chemnitzer Linux Tage ReactOS CDs that were built: see http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/branches/ros-branch-0_3_16-clt2014/reactos/make_hybridcd.cmd?revision=62438&view=co&pathrev=62438 for example (code © Colin Finck).

- @ Colin: in your script is mentioned: “Our cdmake doesn't support creating an ISO9660:1999 filesystem, which is important for a universally usable disc.” : is this remark still valid or not?

- Finally, I need somebody who can test whether hybrid cds can be built with RosBE under Linux, and whether they work or not (concerning Windows, the test is already done ;) ). Thank you in advance!

Cheers,

H.

De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] De la part de Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO
Envoyé : lundi 19 janvier 2015 00:12
À : ReactOS Development List
Objet : [ros-dev] ReactOS Hybrid CDs

Hi all !

Our build system is now able to build so-called “hybrid cds” . What are they?

They are boot+live-cd all-in-one. In addition it is now possible with them to load the live cd as a ramdisk. For that the contents of the bootcd is placed into a bootcd/ directory, the contents of the livecd is placed into a livecd/ directory, and the livecd image itself is also included (this is the one that is used for livecd ramdisk). You can notice that makes a lot of redundancy, but it’s the best thing I could do for now. The best way would be to build some kind of flat HDD image that is used as the livecd ramdisk (and never use the livecd with reads from the cd as we currently do…) .

Anyways.

So here it is !

In addition you can add extra custom files via the build process: just place your files into a <your_ROS_source>/modules/hybridcd_extras/ directory (this directory doesn’t exist by default, it’s up to you to create and populate it; I think it’s better to create a directory somewhere else and then add a symlink “hybridcd_extras” to this directory, inside the modules/ directory, as you already do with rosapps and rostests).

After that you configure a build, build the host-tools and then ninja hybridcd !!

If then you need to change the custom files, do it and then reconfigure a build with the “cmake .” command (when you’re inside <your_ROS_builddir>/reactos/ ) so that cmake can build again the list of files to be included into the hybridcd.

See https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-9069 for few more details.

Cheers,

Hermès.