Subject: Re: VAX ISO CD's bootable?
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: M J Dowden <mjdowden@panix.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/15/2002 16:47:09
At 10:01 PM -0400 6/14/2002, John Wilson wrote:
>
>Sure, but the ISO 9660 standard allows for the machine-dependent bootstrap
>to be located outside of the file area.  That's why you want to burn the
>raw image, rather than exploding it to individual files and then making a
>new ISO filesystem from that.


     Thank you ENORMOUSLY, that was the missing piece of the puzzle. 
It never occurred to me that there could be "off the books" files on 
an ISO 9660 CD.


     Best regards,
     Mike Dowden

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