Subject: Re: Relevance of IS09660 apple extensions for makefs
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/11/2007 20:38:43
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:03:44PM -0400, Richy Kim wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> could someone point out the relevance or motivation behind having the
> apple extensions [1] for iso9660 in makefs? Does it have to do with
> distrib and bootable cd~s for the mac/68k ports?

It is my understanding that in order to create CD-ROMs for NetBSD/macppc
and NetBSD/mac68k that the Macintosh firmware will auto-boot, we need
to set a special Apple Type/Creator on files that we want for the BIOS
to load.

Dave

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