Subject: Re: macppc boot CD query
To: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@jkmrc.uq.edu.au>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@murphy.dyndns.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/14/2003 06:22:29
On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 05:29  AM, Ray Phillips wrote:

> Dear port-macppc:
>
> I'd like to make a multi-architecture-bootable NetBSD install CD and 
> have read
>
> http://www.au.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html
>
> but am confused about the section on making a cd boot a Mac by holding 
> down 'c'
>
> http://www.au.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#macppcimage
>
> The sixth paragraph of this section finishes with
>
>   "Mkisofs will attach the proper Mac OS Type and Creator codes while
>    generating the ISO image file if the following line is added to the 
> file
>    /usr/src/distrib/cdrom/hfsmap.lst:"
>
> Does that mean mkisofs reads the contents of 
> /usr/src/distrib/cdrom/hfsmap.lst when it runs (which seems unlikely); 
> or does it mean hsfmap.lst needs to be modified and then a newer, 
> better mkisofs built from package source?

No, I think you've taken this out of context.  You also need to use the 
mkisofs parameters that are shown in the document.  One of them tells 
mkisofs to use the hfsmap.lst file for mapping files into the Mac OS 
Type and Creator codes.

-bob