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Building a kernel-only 9front ISO ================================= In situations where PXE booting is not possible it can be useful to have an ISO file containing just the 9front kernel for booting the machine and having it continue with TLS/TCP mount of the file server. It is assumed that file and auth servers have already been set up. Start with a `plan9.ini` with parameters suitable for the target machine and network. `/tmp/plan9.ini` cdboot=yes bootfile=/amd64/9pc64 auth=192.168.1.6 fs=192.168.1.5 user=moody bootargs=tls # mouseport=ps2 monitor=vesa vgasize=1024x768x16 Create a `proto(2)` file describing the resultant ISO file tree: `/tmp/9boottree` uid=sys gid=sys 386 d775 9bootfat 664 9boothyb 664 9bootiso 664 mbr 664 pbs 664 cfg d775 plan9.ini 664 amd64 d775 9pc64 664 Populate the source file tree. This could be done by copying only the needed files into a temporary directory, but it is easier to reuse the root filesystem, replacing any files that need replacing — `plan9.ini` in this case: bind /tmp/plan9.ini /root/cfg/plan9.ini Finally, build the ISO file with `disk/mk9660(8)`: disk/mk9660 -c9j \ -B /386/9bootiso \ -s /root -p /tmp/9boottree \ -v 'Plan 9' kern.iso Burn the resulting `kern.iso` to a suitable drive.