README.md

iso image tester

This is a simple repo to compare creating a bootable iso image with standard linux utilities, notably genisoimage, and go-diskfs.

To compare, you do the following:

1. Clone this repo to get all the files you need.
2. Get the necessary binaries for booting and place them in files/.
3. Generate an iso image using the standard linux utilities.
4. Generate an iso image using go-diskfs.

To keep it simple, all you need to do is:

make generate

This will:

1. Get all of the binary dependencies - to run separately, make deps
2. Build the go builder - to run separately, make build
3. Generate an image isos/linux.iso via genisoimage - to run separately, make generate-linux
4. Generate an image isos/go.iso via the go binary - to run separately, make generate-go

To run either image in qemu:

make run-go
make run-linux