Subject: Re: CD questions
To: Dave Schmitt <dschmi1@umbc.edu>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/17/1999 02:41:09
Dave Schmitt  (dschmi1@umbc.edu) wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Bob Nestor wrote:
>
>> Dave Schmitt  (dschmi1@umbc.edu) wrote:
>> 
>> >I downloaded the NetBSD 1.4.1 CD image and burned it using Toast so that I
>> >could try it out at home. However, in the mac68k binary section, several of
>> >the sets are 0 bytes. I assume this is because they were symlinked to stuff
>> >in another director; is this correct and are those files in M68K? 
>> >
>> >Also, the Booter, Installer, and Mkfs apps seem to all be missing their
>> >resource forks; is this because the CD is ISO9660?
>> 
>> The MacOS apps on the FTP site do have the resrouce forks, but you have 
>> to remember to download them in binary, not ASCII or MacBinary.
>
>It was downloaded in binary; I say it because it was just a single file CD
>image (ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/FreeISO/netbsd/netbsd-1.4.1.iso). 

Sounds like whoever created these ISO images didn't do it right then. The 
original files on the NetBSD site are OK though.  I download them to burn 
the CDs I make and don't have this problem.

-bob