Re: Releasing Slink (was Re: Please add new version of Release-Notes)
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> a few .info files should be added, so users can doubleclick on icons under
> AmigaOS to read the readmes, open the drawer with the (amiga) install stuff.
> It can be done without these icons (.info files) but its not very user
> friendly.
Agreed.
> The amiboot file (^= loadlin on i386) is not executable,which is very bad.
> I had to copy the install drawer to harddisk, change permissions and start
> the installation from there. The rest seems to work, but I did not do a full
> install from CD yet.
Strange. What do the permissions under AmigaOS and Linux look like for
the amiboot file?
It's possible the flags to mkisofs/mkhybrid are removing the Unix x bits,
or that your Amiga CD-ROM driver has to have the Amiga-specific Rock Ridge
extensions for a file to recognize it as executable. The former is easily
fixable, the latter is impossible to fix without hacking mkhybrid.
> Whom should I send the .info files? Who will create the images?
> I might be able to burn some CDs here to test if the images are correct
> then.
I'd tar the .info files up and put them in an archive on your home
directory on master, so people can find it if they need it.
Chris
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