Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?
It is confirmed debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso is mountable on my Macbook.
Have a nice day,
Rui
On Apr 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i wrote:
>>> i still ponder about the supposed MBR allergy of the Macs.
>>> If the allergy theory is right, then that should not mount any more:
>>> dd if=debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso bs=2K count=16 >test_mix.iso
>>> dd if=debian-6.0.1a-sparc-CD-1.iso bs=2K skip=16 >>test_mix.iso
>
> Rui Ribeiro:
>> I confirm that I cannot mount test_mix.iso.
>
> This means that none of the differences of the image trees
> of genisoimage and xorriso is significant.
> It is only about the presence of the isohybrid MBR.
>
>
> The MBR of the Debian image differs in one aspect from MBRs made by
> the Syslinux program isohybrid.pl. The first partition does not start
> at block 0 but at HDD block 64 (= 32 kB).
> The Debian Live images have MBRs where partition 1 starts at 0.
> (Probably created by genisoimage and isohybrid.pl.)
>
> So it would be interesting to see whether they are mountable or not.
> The smallest one i can spot is 274 MB:
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso
>
>
> It would be pity if partition offset is indeed to blame.
> The feature seems to be help with booting from USB stick on some
> machines:
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2011-March/016213.html
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
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