Re: bootable ISOs

[M G <mngrif%gmail.com@localhost>]

A fully bootable mac68k CD is too good to be true. But, a CD you can
pop in, run the booter and boot in to a working netbsd system is a
VERY NICE THING TO HAVE! I had to master my own on more than one
occasion, and if I had thought ahead at all I would have posted the
images for everyone else. It certainly is better than finding that old
mac FTP client on a floppy disk and getting TCP/IP working just so I
can FTP the booter and install image in.

We didn't mean to discourage at all, there was just a slight misunderstanding :)

I'll give it a try as soon as I find my one and only SCSI CDROM drive...

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Hauke Fath
<hauke%espresso.rhein-neckar.de@localhost> wrote:
> At 19:31 Uhr +0900 10.3.2009, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>>hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost wrote:
>>
>>> At 1:53 Uhr +0900 10.3.2009, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>>> >I've committed some changes to src/distrib/cdrom
>>> >and put (unofficial and untested) bootable ISOs:
>>> >
>>>
>>>>ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/iso/mac68kcd-5.0_RC2-20090307.iso.
>>> >gz
>>>
>>> Seriously? Bootable? mac68k? System 7 and all? How did you do that? And
>>> what does Apple say?
>>
>>Depends on definition of the word "bootable."
>>
>>I'm not a Macintosh user, but I thought it was common knowledge
>>that using Booter utility was the only way to boot NetBSD/mac68k.
>>In that scope, "bootable ISO" means a CD image which has a hyblid
>>ISO9660/HFS file system with all necessary executable MacOS binaries.
>
> Okay. But the CD doesn't come with a bootable Apple Macintosh System on it,
> and cannot, for obvious licensing reasons. That's why I asked back. It is
> still very helpful for beginners to have a one-stop install media - thanks
> for your work!
>
>>If you don't think it is so common, you can add a FAQ entry
>>that mentions "you need MacOS to boot NetBSD/mac68k"
>>before answering "what to do" to boot.
>
> :)
>
> I am well aware of the issue... and Colin Wood's mac68k FAQ surely has the
> necessary information already.
>
>>Anyway, your message has discourage my motivation enough.
>
> It wasn't meant that way, at all, no offense intended! It is just that if
> you had been able to pull off a bootable redistributable CD, that would
> have been almost too good to be true.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>        hauke
>
>
>
> --
> "It's never straight up and down"     (DEVO)
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