On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> >Hmmm... I think the best thing to do is tweak mkhybrid a little. If we
> >could get it to add an empty partition (or a certain amount of Apple PM
> >free space), then the installboot I'm bashing on should do it.
> >
> Well I suspect it'll be more than just a little tweaking but I could be 
> wrong.

I think all it would need is taking the code to add drivers, and only
using half of it. :-)

> >I'm a little hesetant to have installboot be able to add stuff onto the
> >end of a "disk," which is what we'd need if I understand you. :-(
> 
> No problem.  It seems like a screwy idea at first, but then I had the 
> advantage of trying to figure out the Sparc/Alpha CD boot code.  Once I 
> understood the Sparc method of building bootable CDs this seemed like a 
> logical extension to make to mkhybrid for the macppc CDs. And since my G3 
> wouldn't boot NetBSD from CD for some reason, I had an incentive to dig 
> around for some other solution.

Oh, it's a perfectly sane idea! It's just that I think it's a bit of tool
overload to have installboot do it. :-)

Another idea might be a little tool which will add the extra partition &
space to an image, and then we run installboot on that. But I was hoping
to not need a different tool. :-)

Take care,

Bill