On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Well, when you get into the details of doing this with the ISO image that 
> mkhybrid creates it turns out it's about 99% identical to what you're 
> already doing in installboot.  At least that's where I ended up after 
> research both the disk and CD requirments for boot code. I finally came 
> to the conclusion that the two could be combined without to much effort.  
> But I'm open to alternatives, and I think right now it's more important 
> to get the disk working with APM.

Right, it's more a philosophical/religeous one. :-) It's that that 1% not
done by installboot, growing the ISO image, is not something which I think
should be in a bootcode-installer. :-) It's not that I think installboot
shouldn't be used on CD's, it's that I think it shouldn't grow the image -
it should have somethign which looks like a disk and play with that.

My thought was to either 1) since mkhybrid makes strange partitions now,
make it add something easy for installboot to change later, then run
installboot. 2) run mkhybrid, run a little tool, then run installboot.

Take care,

Bill