Subject: Re: macppc boot cd how-to?
To: Makoto Fujiwara <makoto@ki.nu>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/08/2002 13:27:39
At 9:51 PM +0900 9/5/02, Makoto Fujiwara wrote:
>Daniel> Note the part about 'some special magic' (src/distrib/cdrom). Anybody
>Daniel> comment on this?
>
>For making CD bootable on OF 1/2 machine, to my understanding,
>you need to do the equivalent work which installboot does for
>the (ffs) disk drive.

I don't think so.

For OF1 (&2?) you need a vanilla ISO level 1 CD-ROM.

For OF3 you need a HFS format CD-ROM.

The "magic" comes in how you get one CD-ROM to satisfy both requirements.
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